Geri deGruy's blog of art, musings, and inspiration

Interruption

(28.5" x 27.5")

Life interrupts.

Many times I've I thought things were orderly and in balance and then life interrupted. Our family shattered when I was 13 and dad left. My best friend was killed in an accident my senior year of high school.  My first marriage was a disaster. I've willingly changed careers several times. I've moved to different states. I had children!!!! And on and on. Everyone has experience with this. 

Changes just happen and often they involve grieving. I've portrayed part of the grief process in the middle section of Interruption. There's the shock of the change, the failed attempt to immediately return to "normal", numbness, blackness, and more attempts to reequilibrate. The shape of life alters.

At some point, there has always come a time for me when the green shoot of life and hope reappears and begins to drive new action. I'm a different person after each change, but I've grown and learned and that becomes a base for the next phase.