Thursday, January 18, 2018

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.









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