Comments on: Sandy Coleman and Laura Shovan https://getsparked.org/spark17/sandy-coleman-and-laura-shovan get together | get creative | get sparked! Wed, 26 Sep 2012 02:09:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.8 By: Laura Shovan https://getsparked.org/spark17/sandy-coleman-and-laura-shovan/comment-page-1#comment-1614 Wed, 26 Sep 2012 02:09:22 +0000 http://www.getsparked.org/?p=9501#comment-1614 Thanks for visiting, other Laura S (!) and Annmarie. Thank you for your comments. Annmarie, I also appreciate your description of Sandy’s image. That sense of never being untethered has been very strong as my friend has gone through this year. Each holiday and birthday is the first without her son. It’s a gift to be able to share this partnership and all of your comments with my friend.

]]> By: sandycoleman https://getsparked.org/spark17/sandy-coleman-and-laura-shovan/comment-page-1#comment-1581 Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:16:58 +0000 http://www.getsparked.org/?p=9501#comment-1581 In reply to Annmarie.

Annmarie, what a beautiful interpretation of this! You voiced exactly what I was hoping to convey in my work, though I could not even voice it myself. Thank you.

]]> By: Annmarie https://getsparked.org/spark17/sandy-coleman-and-laura-shovan/comment-page-1#comment-1577 Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:59:36 +0000 http://www.getsparked.org/?p=9501#comment-1577 That something that happens when one artistic heart opens to another. What a gorgeous rendering of heartbreak. Yet there is joy in the life lost reflected here as well, the suggestion of a heart on a string, like a kite, floating far away, but never untethered.

]]> By: Laura Shovan https://getsparked.org/spark17/sandy-coleman-and-laura-shovan/comment-page-1#comment-1511 Mon, 24 Sep 2012 18:41:35 +0000 http://www.getsparked.org/?p=9501#comment-1511 Thank YOU, Sandy. I have already shared “Elsewhere” with my friend. It means so much to her that Grant’s story inspired your artwork.

With gratitude,

Laura

]]> By: laurasalas https://getsparked.org/spark17/sandy-coleman-and-laura-shovan/comment-page-1#comment-1510 Mon, 24 Sep 2012 18:40:15 +0000 http://www.getsparked.org/?p=9501#comment-1510 Oh, what a heartbreaking poem. Beauty from grief–one of the gifts of poetry and art. Hugs to Laura and all touched by this life and death.

]]> By: sandycoleman https://getsparked.org/spark17/sandy-coleman-and-laura-shovan/comment-page-1#comment-1509 Mon, 24 Sep 2012 18:24:19 +0000 http://www.getsparked.org/?p=9501#comment-1509 In reply to Laura Shovan.

Hi, Laura, thanks so much. You wrote a beautiful, beautiful piece that deeply touched me. I’m so sorry for your loss. (“Sorry” is such an inadequate word.) I can’t even imagine what it feels like. Please share my condolences with your friend.

]]> By: Laura Shovan https://getsparked.org/spark17/sandy-coleman-and-laura-shovan/comment-page-1#comment-1505 Mon, 24 Sep 2012 17:50:24 +0000 http://www.getsparked.org/?p=9501#comment-1505 Hi, Sandy. Thank you so much for this response to “The Map.” We are still grieving the death of my friend’s son, who passed in January at age 15. I know it will mean a lot to her that Grant continues to touch people’s lives.

Laura

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