In preparing these drawings for posting, I had to put them through Photoshop in an effort to bring the images back from the depths of poor quality.

In doing so, I valiantly tried to read the year written by my signature. I managed to see two years, ’77 and ’79. It made the most sense to assign them all to the year 1979 because in 1977, I did not have a real studio in the small house where my ex-husband and I lived in Chester, MA.

However, the photographs that are parts of these mixed media pieces were all taken from the yard outside of that house in Chester looking at the landscape that included Round Hill.

It seems that in 1979, the year my son was born, and one year after Worthington, MA, became home, I was continuing to exorcize the deeply meaningful experiences that I had in Chester which occured for many more years prior to the six months I spent there after I was married.

These drawings were the first I made in Worthington in a studio which eventually became my bedroom twenty-five years later, after my husband left.

They demostrate my predilection toward landscape as subject matter for my art before I became comfortable enough with my visual understanding and geographical situation in it that I started to examine my own person, which art process itself later evolved into complete abstraction by way of geometric shapes and eventually exclusively lines again, recalling my art origins at CalArts in the ’70s.

These drawings also reveal my love affair with ‘coloring in’ shapes as well as inventing them in the drawings imitating what I perceive to be shadows in the photographs. These sweet unpretentious little 4″ x 4″ photographs taken with a small Kodak box camera.