“Afloat” Image. Ceres Gallery. New York. Solo Show.
Ah Barbados! When our daughter was very young and could ride on our laps, my husband and I used to go to Barbados. It is very far east and is, in fact, in a different time zone. It is also very far south, near the equator. So the water goes counter clockwise down the drain and not clockwise as it does here.
Exotic differences. Real African food because of its proximity to Africa. Sugar fields with waving tall grasses and birds that sing beautifully at night. Our daughter and I had little watercolor sketchbooks where we painted in the landscape of Barbados. We used up all the blue in our paintboxes.
I look at these little paintings now and think of what a sweet time it was.
The almonds I am not too sure about. The kind of tree, not too sure. But in the collage above, are embedded memories of this magical place and time visited long ago.
Hollis Hildebrand-Mills 
Love these little insights of family life and how they set off that spark
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Thank you for putting it that way!
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I know. It really, as my 92 year old mother would say, “takes you back!”
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We tried to see the water being drained in NZ and Australia and did not see a difference!
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Maybe it’s like me being fascinated by the acid green wall!(Remember I told you all that story at Thanksgiving and everyone just looked at me like “What’s so interesting about an acid green wall? Is this the punch line?” You just aren’t as visual as I am! Ha.:)
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