she whose garden grows......

It has been dreary, rainy and grey here,........ yet this morning dawned warm and sweet smelling........ I remembered in a clay class long ago,  the teacher asking us to invent our native names..... and then do a series of work with that name. The teacher's chosen name was, "she of tensile strength."....... I chose as my name,.... " she whose garden grows."...... There were a couple of students in the class that refused to do this project as they thought it was too flakey. I think this is a great exercise to personalize your work. Working in series gives the work room to develop. I probably would change my name to something else now...something more like..."she who yearns for sunshine..." or "she who needs a holiday.."  But that long ago series comes back time and time again in my work. .....she whose garden grows......