DEGREES OF LONELINESS mixed media on 7" wood circles + 11" wood circle hand-prints, acrylic, pencil + gold leaf Well I have returned to Albuquerque, but will be posting art created and shown in California during my residency at the Desert Dairy Farm . Above, Degrees of Loneliness, are wood circles created in mixed mediums to portray the varied stages of loneliness and depression. This is included within the project, Aging . . . a female's perspective, which is still in development, but am happy to report a great portion was created during the residency! Degrees of Loneliness addresses the fallacy that all elderly people are depressed and lonely. Some are, but a large portion are not for no longer have the restrictions of daily lives. Many travel, volunteer or go onto second careers. I envision this display to grow in quantity with additional circular scenes of darkened trees and varied stages of...
Susan E. Roden's pastels, mixed media and prose