"She Gets to Choose"

“She Gets to Choose” The messenger in this painting wants me to talk about choice. She asks me to share a story about my live-in relative, who struggles with opportunities slipping away. She’s no longer able to live alone, fix her own meals, drive or work. She mourns the loss. Every breath is a struggle as she fights her fate. What can be done? Roll over and die? Give up the will to live?

In meditation, I bathe her in healing light. I see her choices when she does not. I see them big and small:

to breathe or not to breathe?

to shower or not?

to take medication or refuse?

to see the beauty of the day or focus on what’s missing?

I understand. I really do. The losses mount up until she feels buried alive. Losses are like ghosts—alive only when we focus on them.

I hold her in light and love. I see her grief that comes out in flashes of profanity and tears. I feel it. Yet, I hold onto the truth of what I know—you get to choose how you feel minute by minute, hour by hour. Your life counts even when you can’t see it.

Mixed media on 18” x 24” cradled gesso panel. 

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"Her Light Makes Flowers Bloom"

“Her Light Makes Flowers Bloom” Her bright face is like the sun energizing all living things. She wants to speak to girls and young women:

Daughters, you are precious in every shade and shape. Your beauty is not gauged by a tape measure, scale or yardstick. Your beauty is eternal. It shines from your eyes and every move you make. See the flowers as your sisters. Their beauty is yours!

Mixed media on 18” x 24” cradled birch panel.

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New Collage Painting

“Her Name Is English Rose” She blooms in every season under a sky bringing rain or sun. She takes her cue from the roses growing in her garden that she may grow to be fragrant, soft, and durable.

There is no criticism or comparison in her garden; just gratitude. She fingers one petal after another like a blind girl seeing for the first time.

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She reminds me of my grandmother, whose father emigrated from London to become the first commercial rose-grower in California (or so I have been told). As a young adult, my grandmother loaded her father’s winter roses onto a horse-drawn wagon. Before dawn, she trekked from Eagle Rock to the Los Angeles flower mart to sell their beauties. She talked about the experience all her life.

Mixed media on 18” x 24” cradled gesso panel 2.5" deep
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 ©Claudia Rose, Ph.D.