11/23/2020
I’ve never purchased an art piece due solely to the fact of where I personally was in the world at that very moment in time.
Before it’s been, “Oh, this would look lovely here...” or “I love these particular colors and this particular style and for ages it can hang here ...”
But never something like this. Something so personal. I don’t usually share personal experiences I have on this page, however I was so touched by .co sharing her deep thoughts during such a difficult time that I figured I’d give it a go.
Jamie started taking daily photographs of her experience in isolation in March while in Provence, France. When our world had fear creeping in on all sides she decided to create art. The famous hashtag started within her studio.
During a time when I was experiencing jobs fading to the background, and my personal world falling apart due to the beginnings of me walking away from a 7+ year relationship — not to mention a world wide pandemic. All the corners of my life feeling bleak, I went into my own isolation. One of shocking grief and deep inner work.
I found comfort in witnessing Jamie daily during this time.
Many days of her isolation creation she’d jot down her thoughts on how she hoped her family could enter this new world. And in reading how she dreamed to embark upon it, I would find myself in many familiar parallels throughout my own life in my own moments that she expressed through her photographs and words, in a world united in the unknown.
So this piece is to remember, a time I was less certain, and even then, how a chosen beauty can rise from a world that’s crumbling around you in seeming disarray. And somehow create a flicker of hope streaming into places almost given up on as lost.
I think it’s also fitting that I received print #35 out of 500 that were printed.
Because although I’m only 32, I’m entering the next phase of my life: my mid thirties, albeit a bit shaken, a bit bruised and a bit hopeful.
