09/05/2022
Soul Sister
Noun | SOL -sis-ter
1- A female friend not related by blood who shares a bond that transcends time, space and distance.
2- A group of two or more women whose hearts and souls and joined together by the journey of past, present and future lives.
3- Two women separated at birth but brought together by fate.
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Not official definitions, mind you - but isn’t it just truer than true, and didn’t you know this even before you read it?
I found myself in a longing for TheGypsyPriestess who moved to the other side of the world two years ago (also known as Arkansas), and whom I have missed more than losing a limb. How we found each other from across miles and time and distances, how it was so meant to be, and how even being apart could never break the bond that is what we are, which is where this work began.
(In the stars, because she has always insisted that we are, all of us, “Soul SiSTARS”)
And halfway through it, my sister Kath, who left this world too soon but is waiting for me in the heavenly abode (and sends me signs from time to time, but not nearly enough). Which linked me to PopPETography, whom I have known for over thirty years, and who lives also a world away (aka Illinois). The three of us were inseparable and once referred to by Husband as “the unholy trinity”, a term we adored, (and to his chagrin, immediately adopted).
I break thinking how I could never have known how special our magic really was, even while knowing that such bonds can never be broken.
My point though is that this portrait is more about the power and might of two women in love whose communion transcends space and time. It is alchemical and cosmic and unbreachable, and it winds its hue and shade in and through us from the knowing and experience of one another. It is the way the sun goes golden when we are together, or the way our heart pines in blue waves when we are not. It is the silvery-violet ever-swirling shades of potential, and the apricot-pink wisps of shared history and it is universal and cosmic in origin. It defines and creates who we are, and everything we have been or are yet to become.
It is our true color. And it is eternal.
“Soul SiSTARS”
Mixed Media
2022
Prints now available via Etsy:
Signed and matted 8X10 -$35: https://etsy.me/3RvJVA9
Altar art - 4X6 matted, titled and dated - $10. https://etsy.me/3q67X9c
ANd just because, this work is also available as a greeting card, for your own Soull SiSTARS. Available here: https://etsy.me/3QbsiVd
