By Sherri Baierl
Medium: Mixed (collage, acrylic, copper leaf, intaglio prints)
Notes: Shown at Adullam Church, Shown at the ArtGarage, Shown at Gallery Night Green Bay 2009
Freddy Krueger knife-blade fingers seemed a bit too far, but they almost were added to the rips in the image. It used to be just the brown painting; a painting called “Hoping for Pentecost” (in the upper left of the image below) and it was made for a Good Friday service a few years ago. I never cared for the painting, but received some good feedback.
After a few years of shuffling it around, it came to represent a beginning of things that have now all pretty-much ended, and many, not so favorably. In effect, a great deal of the last three years has felt like Freddy Krueger took his knife bladed fingers and punched bad dream holes and ripped through my reality (or heart, as it were). Normally, I'm not that dramatic.
I suddenly looked back and thought: how did this happen? Still searching for employment, broke up with a boyfriend, the city was tearing down my house, my good friends all moved or had issues of their own and so many more things…and then, while at Studio 210, someone looked at it and said, “it looks so emotional” and all I said in return, because what can you really say when your world falls apart but “yah, it sorta is.”
And that is the story.
I hope to continue writing a better story, metaphorically. I hope that the next few chapters are less emotionally exhausting, a bit happier and all of the things you want, you know. I'd also like a husband, kids and some opportunities...but I'll take what I can get. God?! You listening?
