Tuesday, August 02, 2005
The day says to believe in miracles
Dick Waterman tells us of friend and Mississippi artist
Sharon McConnell, who has been blind for many years. Dick writes:
"Her name is Sharon McConnell and if you visit her web site, you will see –- an ultimate irony –- that she creates face masks of blues and gospel artists whose faces she has never been able to see.
"I am certain that there are poets and wordsmiths on high who can recount tales that would explain how miracles truly work but tonight I can only tell you that my friend Sharon told me that in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the trees are green and the sky is blue."
On her site, McConnell says she has 30 portraits completed to date: Joe Willie 'Pinetop' Perkins, Odetta, Bobby Rush, 'Little Milton' Campbell, Dorothy Moore, Othar Turner, Jessie Mae Hemphill, R. L. Burnside, Alvin Youngblood Hart, 'Big Jack' Johnson, James 'T-Model' Ford, Sam Carr, Blind Bud Spires, Paul 'Wine' Jones, Vasti Jackson, Rev. Arnold 'Gatemouth' Moore, Li'l Bill Wallace, Rev. Willie Morganfield, 'Blind Mississippi' Morris Cummings, John Hammond, Eddie Cusic, Tommy 'TC' Carter Virgil Brawley, Shirli Dixon, Butch Dixon, Koko Taylor, Eddie Clearwater, David 'Honeyboy' Edwards, Billy Branch, and Thomas Blues.
A few days ago, she regained her sight.
(from Everything and Nothing) ¶ 8/02/2005 07:43:00 AM
Dick Waterman tells us of friend and Mississippi artist
Sharon McConnell, who has been blind for many years. Dick writes:
"Her name is Sharon McConnell and if you visit her web site, you will see –- an ultimate irony –- that she creates face masks of blues and gospel artists whose faces she has never been able to see.
"I am certain that there are poets and wordsmiths on high who can recount tales that would explain how miracles truly work but tonight I can only tell you that my friend Sharon told me that in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the trees are green and the sky is blue."
On her site, McConnell says she has 30 portraits completed to date: Joe Willie 'Pinetop' Perkins, Odetta, Bobby Rush, 'Little Milton' Campbell, Dorothy Moore, Othar Turner, Jessie Mae Hemphill, R. L. Burnside, Alvin Youngblood Hart, 'Big Jack' Johnson, James 'T-Model' Ford, Sam Carr, Blind Bud Spires, Paul 'Wine' Jones, Vasti Jackson, Rev. Arnold 'Gatemouth' Moore, Li'l Bill Wallace, Rev. Willie Morganfield, 'Blind Mississippi' Morris Cummings, John Hammond, Eddie Cusic, Tommy 'TC' Carter Virgil Brawley, Shirli Dixon, Butch Dixon, Koko Taylor, Eddie Clearwater, David 'Honeyboy' Edwards, Billy Branch, and Thomas Blues.
A few days ago, she regained her sight.
(from Everything and Nothing) ¶ 8/02/2005 07:43:00 AM
