Anthemis Landscape

Tawnya Lively, 2018. Anthemis Landscape. 10"x 20"

Nancy Persons and Mike Roth lost their home in the Fountaingrove neighborhood of Santa Rosa, CA. I know Nancy and Mike through our work at Santa Rosa Junior College.

Nancy Persons, January 2018

Nancy salvaged broken pieces of their botanical china set that survived the fire. This is what the original plates looked like.

Villeroy & Boch Botanica - Anthemis Tinctoria.

These are the remnants in the ashes on Nancy & Mike's property after the fire.

Fountaingrove, Santa Rosa, Ca.

Making Anthemis Landscape was truly a labor of love.  The process of picking up the broken pieces in a disaster to make something new feels deeply symbolic and hopeful.

The McClaran's Stepping Stone

Kim and Jack McClaran lost their home in the Fountaingrove neighborhood of Santa Rosa, CA. They heard about the firestorm mosaic project through social media and asked to have something made with what they collected from the ashes.

Around the same time, I had put out a call to artists to help make projects for the unfortunate many who are in the same situation. Frances Cross makes mosaics and responded to the invitation to volunteer. She created this meaningful stepping stone for the McClarans and it was an honor to witness this exchange!

Thank you, Frances!

  Kim McClaran, Jack McClaran, Frances Cross, December 2017

               

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