Gentle elation

Sue has been making art since she was in her twenties. Much of her making happened with children in classrooms. Ceramics, watercolor, acrylics, mixed media, graphite, pastels, papier maché. She thought of this work as ephemeral. She made it, the children made it, and they gave it away, tore it up, sat on it, ate it, burned it, pinned it on walls with tacks, taped it to fridges, hung it on ribbons or wires. It vanished, wore out, faded, broke, ended up in the trash or the garden. 

But today something different happened. We took eleven of her paintings to be framed. Elated, we celebrated with pie and coffee and high-fived each other at the Bipartisan Cafe.