Conceptual Sketch

This is one of the original concept sketches for the painting posted previously. It centers around the sense of loss resulting from the inability to communicate with my mother after she developed Alzheimers.

I was going through a particularly difficult time personally, and longed to be able to have just one more mother daughter conversation with her...a mother's perspective and advice.

The womb shaped oval...now vacant, representing birth...nurturing...motherhood. It is intersected by a single flat line...the loss of activity and no longer able to communicate. The two bold black strokes represent the barriers that have now come between us.

To the right in the painting is a sphere of colour which falls away to dust...the sphere representing all the energy, thoughts and questions in my head.... longing to be able to talk things over just once more. The light in the surrounding blue skies, and the tiny cross sitting at the end of the line, show her growing ever closer to her final destination.