The Cards are laid on the table for each of us. Some good, some challenging.
With a bit of skill, you can use those cards to build a life.
With a bit more skill, you can trade them in for others and improve on that life.
With even more skill, you can chuck the lot and draw yourself a Real Adventure.
It’s in the Luck of the Draw for all of us.
- Created: March-July 2024
- Size: 37.5 inches x 53 inches (95 cm x 134 cm)
- Materials: Hand-dyed cotton fabric, cotton/polyester thread
- Techniques: Hand-dyeing, free-motion quilting, embroidery,
My Thoughts on the Work
Wealth comes to us in different ways. Some of us are lucky with relationships, others with health or beauty. Money and all the stuff it can buy, that’s one area of Wealth that hasn’t necessarily been overflowing in my life. After Mom died, I noticed how important wealth of the material type was to my childhood family, to her, to my father, and to my sister. For me, wealth has come in relationships, in health, and in laugher. I haven’t drawn loads of material wealth into my story, yet.
How much money you have, your health, the people you gather about you…it’s in the luck of the draw. Sometimes, we get good cards and sometimes challenging cards. Regardless of what cards we picked when we started out, we can draw something different. There’s luck in being able to draw yourself a new life filled with the things you value. There’s power in realizing that Drawing isn’t just about pre-set cards in a deck someone else shuffled. It’s also in the tools you choose to make your mark in the world.
