Step by Step

"Drum Roll, Please!" I walked slow yet steady yesterday with 15,718, and that is according to the Fit Bit. Thanks to my Shaffer cousins and our exercise recording, I decided to take one more walk last evening. 

My walk led me to the Center on Contemporary Art (COCA) in the Rubix Apartments, located at 515 Harvard Ave East in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood.

I met Victoria Raymond, who is the artist of this piece, titled: "I've Got a Handle on it." She said that all of us have been broke or have brokenness some way in our lives. The handle is for how we handle the times of brokenness or hold on.

For me, the yarn/string represents how they unravel yet how things can be tied together. The bright colors with flowers are how we have opportunity to grow and blossom where we are planted. If I had $625.00 I would have bought her piece.

Seattle author, Stephanie Kallos book, "Broken for You” is reminiscence of Raymond’s piece. I found that both pieces were tied together with string and not by the yarn I use for the hats I make for those in need of warmth. I believe good works elicit emotion and speak to one’s being. Both pieces, the art and the book, spoke to me theologically through these words from “The Prayer of Consecration, Holy Communion, “…He took bread; and when He had given thanks, He brake it, and gave it to his disciples saying, Take, eat, this is my body given for you.”

Where will your walk lead you today?

Victoria will have a piece in “The Incredible Intensity of Just Being Human” in this exhibit on April 2016 at ArtEast in Issaquah. I am looking forward to it.