Come journey with me

This newsletter invites you on a journey through visual art to an understanding of how memory and place forms we humans, and to ponder what that means for the future, both individual and shared. Posts will feature original works of art by the author, as well the work of contemporary artists that I admire. The topics for my sketching (pencil) and painting (acrylic and oil) is archival/genealogical research about my family, that was spurred by my wanting to know more about my Great Grandmother Blanche Sugg (1898-1950) who was an artist, and who drew the ink and paper rooster featured in the banner in 1913 and in the newsletters inaugural post on January 3, 2022. All of my people are from Greene County, North Carolina, and I am working on a historical novel focused on land theft in the 1920s-1940s, as well as a memoir told through a biographical lens of my Grandfather who was a Tobacco farmer who was a member of the Greene County, NC School Board from 1956-63 and then Sheriff from 1963-78. My happy place is Hilton Head, South Carolina, where I love to spend time and it was where I found a love of art, in the midst of pandemic in 2021. The history of Hilton Head and the vibrant Gullah Culture is an object lesson in how complex are the meanings of place, that are often hidden in the wide open. I am trying to use art to better integrate individual and shared memory with a goal of looking back as the best way to move ahead—trying to remember things I never knew, by finally paying attention. Subscribe to get full access to the newsletter and website. There will be posts with photographs, sketches and paintings without reflections that will always be available for free. Never miss an update.

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