“Afloat” Image. Ceres Gallery. New York. Solo Show.
Not too long ago, my husband, daughter and I moved to the suburbs. Actually it was at the beginning of my daughter’s life. So I guess it has been a while. We had been living in the center of Atlanta, on a shadowy street not too far from where my studio is located. It was a traumatic move. In many ways.
Long before the move, I had been receiving acupuncture treatments for my sinus condition. For these doctor visits, we would get up early in the morning and drive very far out to what seemed to us, the edge of the earth. We felt, that if we drove just a little further, we would fall off. Like in the cartoons.
Feeling life is safer in the burbs, we looked for a house. Settling into the house that would be the house of our daughter’s childhood memories, we realized we were living in a home just beyond that point.
Beyond the edge of the earth.
Hollis Hildebrand-Mills 
I love that – ‘beyond the edge of the earth’ – it’s chilling yet strangely reassuring all in one go; I can’t say why.
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Thank you, Jenny! Oh and I didn’t mean to pin Halloween on your “side of the pond.” What we have here is demented. No British person even throwing omelets would approve! You over there are much too refined! Even throwing omelets, which of course you have cooked first. 🙂
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I would love to visit America one day. You just can’t get that feeling of unendingness in the UK.
Very evocative memories.
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But you have wonderful quaint villages with such lovely roses and weather and charm. I wish I could see England again!
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Its gotten closer as the years go by. I too used to feel outside the city was soo far away.Still amazed how different and connected the series is.
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Thank you. I know each piece is different. I just let them flow. I really did love doing them. And the humor made them so much fun. I am aware that I counted though.Which took away from the fun. But basically a wonderful time I had doing each collage!
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