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Blew Artwork
Family Tree
Family Tree
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(16" x 20") - Acrylic on Canvas
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Whenever I go back to Fayetteville and visit my family there, I always make a side visit to Mount Comfort Cemetery where my Mom and Dad are buried. As cemeteries go, Mount Comfort is a classic small town resting place. Peaceful. Quiet. Checkered with a variety of headstones and monuments remembering loved ones from as far back as the early1800's.
There are several "Blew" headstones. "Blew" is a fairly distinctive name both in the way it sounds and the way it looks when you see it etched in marble. Strolling through the cemetery one can easily surmise several generations of Blews lived in this area. Many more still do. We are connected by name, history, and lineage while still being separated in many cases by time, geography, and lack of acquaintance.
I feel this dual sense of connection and separation whenever I leave Mount Comfort Cemetery. Even more so beholding the massive oak tree stretching out over my Mom and Dad's plots, shading their ground under its muscular canopy.
This new painting "Family Tree" isn't really about that experience per se, but it is about family, connection, being intertwined and part of a unique group of people across time and eternity. It is as optimistic and exuberant as it is simple and direct.
I hope you enjoy it, and I hope it makes you feel more connected to your family every time you look at it.
