How did I get Here?

21 x 10 x 9

stoneware paperclay, underglazes, glazes, wood

2023

private collection

How did I get Here?

My life was not a straight line

It was not a Start Here and follow the arrows

step-by-step

Until you get to the end.

High school, college, marriage, first house, children, family vacations

Second house

Anniversaries

Death.

No, for me I got the order all wrong.

High school, college drop-out, child

Work, first house, marriage,

Second house, divorce

Vacation (alone)

For me it was more of a

Chose Your Own Adventure Story

If you chose X, turn to page 33

Chose Y, turn to page 95

I colored outside of the lines

stepped on lots of toes

Things got messy and a little out of control.

I mad choices out of fear

Fear of not having enough

But, I trusted my gut.

I knew myself.

I can do hard things.

Never knowing exactly where I was

How things would turn out

Feeling quite a bit lost

and alone, for a while.

At these times I felt like I was standing in a mall

Searching the big map

For the arrow that could show me:

You are Here.