In 1978, my ex-husband and I bought a house in Worthington, MA. We had to leave Chester, MA where I had been working over a six month period for Edwin Schlossberg as his Executive Assistant and Research Associate. My ex-husband during that time wrote a music composition, Voices, for which he was awarded his doctorate in Music Composition at SUNY Buffalo.

Chester was the first town in the Pioneer Valley as one traveled from the south. The view from our small house on Ed’s property was special. The mountain straight ahead as we walked out the door of the house is called, I was told, Round Hill. I found out later that Round Hill was actually somewhere else.

These pieces were all done once we had moved into our house in Worthington. My studio window looked out onto two dying maple trees and a small apple tree across our street. Behind those trees, which were planted along the roadside, was a field where potatoes were planted. In the distance at the back of the field were woods.

In the Biography of Round Hill, I incorporated the view from Chester into a series some of whose drawings are missing. The first ink drawing (above) is one of the most beautiful I have ever done. It is a portrait of the Chester view, imbued with adoration of the years spent being able to see this mountain and live the experiences associated with it, when I was both single and married.

My ex-husband and I were forced to move away at the end of the six months. We had to figure out how to be on our own and how to start that process, which time was protracted into an endless series of unscheduled events and painful decisions. The view of Round Hill began to dissolve into the new view out of my Worthington studio window.

However, once settled in our Worthington house, it was important that I officially say goodbye to the immediate past and honor the present because I was pregnant with my son. Trees Visting Rooms is a series comprised of drawings (not all of which are documented), and one now destroyed painting. The Untitled Box is a three-dimensional conception of the two-dimensional images of the Biography of Round Hill.

Some of both series were shown at photographer Clemens Kalisher’s Image Gallery in Stockbridge, MA in 1981.

Three of Biography of Round Hill drawings are owned by a collector of my work in New York City. I have no idea where that collector is.

Both of these series reflect some of the most deeply sad and fearful moments of my life.

Each drawing is approximately 20 inches h x 30 inches w. The painting was 24 inches by 68 inches (see below) and the box is approximately 8 inches h x 24 inches w x 6 inches d (see below).