#IntergenerationalWisdom

2025-01-17

new work

Does it Get Any Better?
2025
Freedom Baird
Oil on canvas

Design sketch for a coat to be worn by two at once. The coat is quilted of fabrics from family members and phases of their lives. The coat shows how caregivers create safety and space to transmit to the next generation ethics, values, wisdom. We impart lived lessons of tolerance, resistance, equanimity, joy. We show where love lives. We are where love lives.

#Motherhood #OilPainting #Quilting #IntergenerationalWisdom

Oil painting of two people walking forward, their backs to us. Their footsteps add to the many footprints on a snowy sidewalk. On the right is an adult wearing a warm winter jacket and wrapping it around the shoulders of the child on the left who is leaning in to keep warm. The coat is made of many pieces of fabric. The patterns in the fabric come from textiles in a quilt which belonged to my grandmother. In the distance are a traffic sign on the left, a pedestrian on the right bundled up against the cold, misty gray cars and buildings, and a low, snow-laden sky above. Snow is falling over the scene.
2023-02-19

@Ea7krc

In a nostalgic moment on the eve of her wedding, I asked my first-born, “What was the best piece of advice I ever gave you?”
Without hesitation:”You told me to stay hydrated whilst drinking alcohol.”

#Proud
#IntergenerationalWisdom

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