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Summer’s End

September 5, 2013 by Janice Wilson Stridick

"Summer's End," 1999 watercolor by Alice Steer Wilson
“Summer’s End,” 1999 watercolor
Alice Steer Wilson

When I saw this painting on Alice’s easel, I cried. She was going to die, and she knew it. That’s what I saw.

My mother loved what she called “jumping off places” like this path across the dunes to the ocean. I couldn’t let the painting out of my life, so I bought it and hung it in my studio. One day I was writing about the painting and I noticed that the two figures crossing the dunes resembled the two of us. My mother was shorter than me, and she favored red. I love blue. The conversation of shapes and colors in this painting illuminated my role as caregiver on her journey to this jumping off place. She didn’t want to leave, and I certainly didn’t want to let go, but we found joy and purpose in the process.

My book about her artist’s life will soon be released nationally by Southbound Press — for me, another jumping off place.

November 8th would have been Alice’s 87th birthday, and now it is the birthday of Alice Steer Wilson: Light, Particularly.

 

 

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