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Each of our Women of Strength pieces has a story that goes with it and you will receive it if you purchase the piece of art.
I imagined each woman and I created a life for her. Who she is, what she does and why she matters.
A narrative for each piece captures the beauty, power, challenges and impact of women in the world.
When you choose one of our Women of Strength pieces, her unique short story will be mailed to you and you will have a lovely document that helps you learn more about why she is art.
Poem: The New Year
Part 1 Generally a year didn’t seem like it could take her, or her name, away. It couldn’t force her to sleep with money, papers, passports or documents. In bed, as her arm arches for the light switch in the icy room, she thinks she sees birds’ wings hovering above her hot breath. But now…
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Poem: The Starts
Before we came who were you? A young bride who embraced abandon and how your bodies could sing together. A farm your life before the new. Before you grew us who were we? Imagined or fortuitously written, small hands and bodies, in the cloth of our ancestors? In the ink of guarantees. The people who…
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Story: Dream Girl
In 1939, Adolf Hitler had decided to invade Poland. France and Great Britain entered the war days later. America entered the war after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941. World War II was a bloody conflict with shocking revelations but there were countless stories of fictitious and real heroes and heroines. One of those,…
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