Every Day She Reached Out To Me

Every. Single. Day.

Even when months went by without me being able to say a word or respond back. She still emailed, convoed, called, chatted and texted.

Sometimes it was just an

 xoxo.....

Letting me know I was not alone.

Letting me know someone cared.

When my anger had pushed everyone away, when I couldn't trust myself to fulfill expectations, when I acted like a complete brat, she forgave me and still reached out.  

Friends like that are rare.

And to be blessed with her friendship has taught me so much, so much that I hope to be able to show others and respond in kind.

Isn't she beautiful? 

Maire Dodd has been a huge source of comfort to me, loving me unconditionally through-out my darkest days of despair. She has also been a huge source of inspiration to me in my work, teaching me things I egotistically thought I had nothing left to learn in. 

She is a private person and I respect that, but she has given me permission to share that she has not been well. She too has experienced life at its cruelest, dealing with blow after blow that has literally knocked her off her feet and laid her up with a debilitating illness that almost took her ability to walk.

Recovery has been very slow and painful.

She has not been able to work.

And as a working artist, this has been devastating to her life and spirit.

She fights daily to overcome the difficulties of being a single mother with 3 kids and now has not been able to do the work of her hands and heart for months.

Can you, for a moment, imagine?

Being unable to create?

Maire is now at the point where she can sit up in bed and move slowly around her house. She is not able to make it up and down the stairs to her workbench, but she has been working on Tibetan calligraphy and weaving when her recovering body allows her.

She has allowed me the honor to stock these pieces in my own shop so that I may take care of the sections of business that her health is not able to allow her to complete right now.
(shipping is both mentally and physically painful to me, a completely healthy person)

And wouldn't you know, it fueled one of the most beautiful artistic collaborations I have ever been involved in!!!

   

Maire's weaving;

Paired with some hammered neck cuff bars;

Makes for some peace, love and happiness.....

It feels good on; the fringe a soft caress, the join between metal and fiber, flexible and light weight.
We are pleased. :)

And we hope you are moved to create some one of a kind pieces from the pairings of metal and woven fiber!
Please visit the "Weavings" sections of our shop here;
missficklemedia.com

Thank you for letting us share what has come from our collaboration. Born from darkness, but always reaching towards lightness!

Peace and Prosperity,
Shannon