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My Mom Trudy DuBois' Ceramic Tile Puzzle Masterpiece
I found a box holding the pieces of this magnificent tile picture in the depths of my mom's artist's garage - a hidden treasure!! When I saw... a couple of the parts, I was blown away! I ran and told my brother to come out and see. I said, "Cover your eyes...Now, open 'em!" I told him, "This is gonna be a masterpiece!" He let me take the whole kit caboodle home. I searched for confirmation that this was, indeed, my mom's own handiwork. I did not see a signed piece yet, but the back of each piece is numbered in what does look like her own script.
I had never seen this tile picture before - no, not even a bit of it! Then again though, I found other glorious handmade ceramic tile work of hers in her garage that I had never seen before either!
I am now certain that this IS her work, however! Besides the carved numbers on the back, the content and styling of several pieces of this set is all the evidence I need to indeed believe this is her work!
The overall content shows things she was passionate about - children, joy, pure fun, the beautiful outdoors, and greenery...
In particular though, the kite blowing in the wind, the baby-child sitting and holding a bouquet of flowers (dandelions?), and especially the inclusion of a farmhouse with a silo (with its cross-hatched sides) are all strongly characteristic of the same styling and/or subject matter that I've seen in other artwork by my Mom.
What I want to share too though, is that this would be my mom's sense of humor - to leave me with a precious treasure...in the form of a puzzle!!!! And in case anybody thinks that this must be a pretty easy one to piece together, well guess what? It's not!!! Yeah, mom WOULD do this to me, and have a big 'ole laugh about it! The joke is on me, but I don't mind. LOL - THANKS, Mom!!! When Jehovah resurrects her back to life, I will be sure to let her know what a good one she pulled on me!!
1 & 2 [Above] ) The pieces - I had never seen them, or them all put together in a picture - ever - before I found them in a cardboard box in the garage, and moved them to here!
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5.) Very much her styling and content matter!
6.) Maaaaaaom!!!!!!
7.) Coming together, some anyway!!
8.) Very funny, Mom! (She used to beat me at Scrabble, too!!!)
9.) Okay. This is boggling. Time for a dinner break - pasta & coffee, just like my mom would have liked it.
10.) I think my mom, resurrected, and the artist M.C. Escher, resurrected, would make great art friends.
11.) Major breakthrough!
12.) Well, after stepping away, and then doing some revolutionary and thrilling-suspenseful-deli
13.) What a trip!! That was/ is AWESOME! Thank You, Mom!!!! That's a message I'll say now and store in my heart until I get to say it to her in person, in the future paradise here!! I will also tell her, great but happy joke and gift, Mom - yes, it DID take a while (!) to put together, LOL!!
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Additional pics, which FB audiences, for the most part, would not have the time or patience for - [coming soon!]
I had never seen this tile picture before - no, not even a bit of it! Then again though, I found other glorious handmade ceramic tile work of hers in her garage that I had never seen before either!
I am now certain that this IS her work, however! Besides the carved numbers on the back, the content and styling of several pieces of this set is all the evidence I need to indeed believe this is her work!
The overall content shows things she was passionate about - children, joy, pure fun, the beautiful outdoors, and greenery...
In particular though, the kite blowing in the wind, the baby-child sitting and holding a bouquet of flowers (dandelions?), and especially the inclusion of a farmhouse with a silo (with its cross-hatched sides) are all strongly characteristic of the same styling and/or subject matter that I've seen in other artwork by my Mom.
What I want to share too though, is that this would be my mom's sense of humor - to leave me with a precious treasure...in the form of a puzzle!!!! And in case anybody thinks that this must be a pretty easy one to piece together, well guess what? It's not!!! Yeah, mom WOULD do this to me, and have a big 'ole laugh about it! The joke is on me, but I don't mind. LOL - THANKS, Mom!!! When Jehovah resurrects her back to life, I will be sure to let her know what a good one she pulled on me!!
1 & 2 [Above] ) The pieces - I had never seen them, or them all put together in a picture - ever - before I found them in a cardboard box in the garage, and moved them to here!
3.)
4.)
5.) Very much her styling and content matter!
6.) Maaaaaaom!!!!!!
7.) Coming together, some anyway!!
8.) Very funny, Mom! (She used to beat me at Scrabble, too!!!)
9.) Okay. This is boggling. Time for a dinner break - pasta & coffee, just like my mom would have liked it.
10.) I think my mom, resurrected, and the artist M.C. Escher, resurrected, would make great art friends.
11.) Major breakthrough!
12.) Well, after stepping away, and then doing some revolutionary and thrilling-suspenseful-deli
13.) What a trip!! That was/ is AWESOME! Thank You, Mom!!!! That's a message I'll say now and store in my heart until I get to say it to her in person, in the future paradise here!! I will also tell her, great but happy joke and gift, Mom - yes, it DID take a while (!) to put together, LOL!!
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Additional pics, which FB audiences, for the most part, would not have the time or patience for - [coming soon!]
