The collaborative round robin Woman Journal I hosted is nearly over. Everyone is to be working on one final page for each journal and be ready to share them at the local I Am Woman show exhibition in April in Kings Mountain, NC. I have made individual entries for each journal until now and was recently inspired by a poem called Imagine A Woman. I am including it here and the author's info and site since I did not ask permission to share it, I hope I will be forgiven and you will visit her site to tell her how much you like it as well.
The image is inspired by the woman in stone stamp from Stampington. I altered and simplified it in Adobe, put it on watercolor paper (already tinted with watercolors) with a light box and then wet the design and dropped in various colors to mingle. The page will be about 8 1/2 by 11 for each journal with the poem printed on vellum on top of the image. Each person will have different colors of watercolors.
Imagine a Woman
by Patricia Lynn Reilly, M. Div.© 1995
This poem inspired the book Imagine a Woman in Love with Herself.
Imagine a woman who believes it is right and good she is woman.
A woman who honors her experience and tells her stories.
Who refuses to carry the sins of others within her body and life.
Imagine a woman who believes she is good.
A woman who trusts and respects herself.
Who listens to her needs and desires and meets them with tenderness and grace.
Imagine a woman who has acknowledged the past's influence on the present.
A woman who has walked through her past.
Who has healed into the present.
Imagine a womanwho authors her own life.
A woman who exerts, initiates, and moves on her own behalf.
Who refuses to surrender except to her truest self and to her wisest voice.
Imagine a womanwho names her own gods.
A woman who imagines the divine in her image and likeness.
Who designs her own spirituality and allows it to inform her daily life.Imagine a womanin love with her own body.
A woman who believes her body is enough, just as it is.
Who celebrates her body and its rhythms and cycles as an exquisite resource.
Imagine a womanwho honors the face of the Goddess in her changing face.
A woman who celebrates the accumulation of her years and her wisdom.
Who refuses to use her precious life energy disguising the changes in her body and life.
Imagine a woman who values the women in her life.
A woman who sits in circles of women.
Who is reminded of the truth about herself when she forgets.
Imagine yourself as this woman.
For more of Patricia Lynn Reilly's inspirations, visit her site:http://www.openwindowcreations.com/
Here are all the images and the one with the vellum poem overlay.
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