from these hands...: Winter - Four Season Series

Next on our Season Series is Winter...

Hand-made wood stools: Gary Leitch

This doll is held in a private collection

Winter ~ Snow Flower

雪花

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When one was about to give up hope that the cold winter would never end, an angel spirit appeared, transformed some of the snowflakes into snowdrop flowers, proving that winter eventually gives way to spring.

This simple little flower is a symbol of transformation, hope, purity and consolation.

Winter...in life everything is cyclical...everything has a season...everything changes. As my dear Dad said "Nothing is permanent except for change"...

In our own lives, we may be in the midst of a coldness and even perhaps some darkness, but as time wears on a light will appear within the darkness...a beauty that brings forth hope and a calmness in knowing that nothing is permanent. I found the more I reached for that beauty, the more I found balance in life. Hope does not come natural to us humans, we must practice at it.

Full View:

I found that as I am making a doll, it takes on a life of its own. I have stated many times that the doll is already "made" that I am the vehicle in which it appears on this earth...I reach upwards and it comes out through my hand's work...ok sometimes I get an eye role or two, but after so many years of creating things, I realize that that statement is so very true...as artist we must let the piece takes on its own life and be "born" as it is designed to be...

Snowflower naturally seated into this position of movement...transformation. I think that is interesting...you?

Up close:

Fabric choices were silks...crepe silk for body lined with cotton batiste. Face is sculpted in stoneclay with an overlay of the silk crepe. Hat is silk brocade with rabbit.