JAYNE OLLIN
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"My Mothers Rosary"

A visual manifestation of my Prayer Vigil
for all those who have been swept up
in this crusade being waged by 
dictators and oligarchs the world over. 

While the chaos they are sowing is being orchestrated
to wear away at our rights, to threaten and
systematically dissolve the cornerstones of our
democracy, the one thing that can't be taken
from us is thepower of prayer. 

I am not a dogmatic person. But I do 
know the power of prayer. When my mother 
prayed for you, you felt it. 

This was demonstrated to me hundreds of times.

I may not necessarily believe in a God,
but I do believe in people. I believe that 
thoughts have power and energy. Energy and 
power that can move us, can free us from
the momentum of this downward spiral.

Three days after my mother died,
at the age of 101
I drove from my home in Vermont to
attend the funeral. 
Along the drive I prayed for her. 
Partway there I pulled into the general 
store in Pittsfield Vermont,
by the Tweed River, and there
hanging directly on the brick
in front of my car
was a blue rosary. 

A month or so after the funeral
I asked my sister if 
I could have my mother's rosaries as she 
had several. Her response was that the only 
one she knew about was Blue,
and it was buried with her. 

A few months later a package arrived in the mail
with the remnants of her broken rosary's.
Worn and broken from 
a life of prayer. 

This collage is my prayer for the power of good
to overcome the tremendous evil that has
eclipsed our world. And, in honor to my 
mother and the power of prayer. 

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"Solace"

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Deluge at Sunrise NY City  38x 36 (detail)


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"pandamonium americana" election 2020. Mixed media: watercolor, collage, milk paint, chalk paint, ink. 32 x 28
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subterranean blues

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untitled 33 x 32
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Daemon


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Atlantic Sturgeon 36 x 20
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Pandora and the climate box. Mixed Media. November 2021
Dios todo lomira
God Sees Everything

Author and Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison warned that "Language can never ‘pin down’ slavery, genocide, war. Nor should it yearn for the arrogance to be able to do so . . its force, its felicity is in its reach toward the ineffable.” Yet it seems, it is imperative that we continue to strive to find a way to express ourselves, to understand, or to purge ourselves of the intensity of our thoughts and feelings. It is our humanity that preserves; searching for a way to begin the conversation in spite of the limits of verbal dialogue, that falls short only because we have become numb to it. When it comes to the question of the hell that fellow human beings are bearing, a hell we are either supporting, condoning, or failing to challenge - the inhumane treatment of victims of unspeakable violence, begging those who could help, for help, only to be met with more violence – the answer falls short of the ideals of humanity.  As an artist I am compelled to express through images what cannot easily be said, what might not otherwise be heard or felt. 
 
Many of the paintings on this page were part of a series that began in 2019, which I titled, Dios todo lomira (God sees everything),   inspired by a photo in the New York Times of a small boy, living in poverty in Mexico, on the wall of his bedroom, were written these words. His hope and the faith in a better world, inspired this series).

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