Jelisava

Paulo on the threshold / April 2010

This was the day when a fresh coat of white paint on the front door brought a brilliant white light into the house that refreshed and renewed us.

Franciska's watercolor flowers / May 1999

This was the day it rained that followed the day it rained that followed the day it rained until you began to feel like a water-logged watercolor painting, edges growing all soft and smeary, to-do lists and to-don't lists running together in your mind until you didn't know what you were supposed to do and what you weren't supposed to do.

This was one of the many nights of the mix tapes expert who was able to calculate, with uncanny accuracy, or maybe I should say with an engineer's accuracy, the precise mix of songs that would use every recordable inch of the 90-minute audio cassette tape, while producing an eclectic mingle of music.

Franciska's studio and sculpture / New Jersey / March 2010

This is the day of the dreaming girl shaped from clay and Franciska's hands.

Franciska's studio, tools / New Jersey / March 2010

“You need a room with no view so imagination can meet memory in the dark.”

~ Annie Dillard