JANE SMITHERS - my mother keeps creating, and i keep learning . . .

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my mother returned from africa,

and shared these pictures with me.

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i don't know how to describe it,

but i am constantly fascinated by her.

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she paints oils with a palette knife,

and taught herself,

now showing in galleries everywhere.

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she sketches and watercolors some of the most beautiful images

in her journals

i've ever seen.

it's like glimpsing someone's inner eye,

her flash of insight into WHY this,

not THAT.

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then she shows me these:

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photography?

now she's into photography!

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seriously?

did she POSE THEM LIKE THAT?

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this woman has always been about re-invention.

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