Paula Meadows Part 5, Brushes

“Have you ever looked back at the narrative of your life and tried to interpret it as if it had been a fictional adventure, or a dream? When we have a special dream we often ask, ‘I wonder what that meant.’ Psychoanalysts train for many years to learn how to read the symbols of dreams, but when it comes to our real physical life, we often dismiss our history with a shrug and assume stuff just happens and that’s all there is to it. For a visual artist, creating images is a way of absorbing and elaborating on what happens, of studying outer form and glimpsing its personal inner significance. Unlike dreams which usually vanish too quickly we have copious records of our unique odyssey and can put it all together. Then seemingly inconsequential elements can start to make sense.”  – A Retrospective by Paula Meadows

We still have that hairbrush today; it's our most treasured possession. But even now, I can't take every stroke without leaping up occasionally. And, in all fairness, neither can John, for he gets it as well if he's made me angry – and we both make sure we get angry a lot. Yes, we're still together, so I suppose this story has something of a traditional ending: we spanked happily ever after. The Most Famous Smacked Bottom in Town by J. E. Roberts with Illustrations by Paula Meadows


Artwork by Lynn Paula Russell aka Paula Meadows can be purchased on the Talisman Fine Art website.

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