Trial Sketch
(on display at the "Indescribable" Art Show)
By Cliff Derksen
Impacting for me...people moving about looking at the art on display, seeing my coping methods, my pain, the mixed feelings, the ups and the downs.
I am feeling for my friends, or for strangers, waiting to give me their impressions, everyone with something...tears, blank looks, looking for words to describe their feelings...emotions on the surface not able to say anything...
A good friend stands before me trying to control his emotions...45 seconds go by...he shrugs his shoulders a few times...speechless..."anything I say now is too trite...", another shrug, "Let's have coffee sometime...we’ll talk then..." I agree.
A lady, wiping tears...her glasses askew..."Do you teach lessons in working with clay?..." tears streaming down her face..."If you do, I want to take classes" she moves on...
Hugs...hugs...and more hugs...
"Each piece lives...has so much to say...brimming with emotions..."
The display of emotions is overwhelming, I am moved and disturbed at the same time. I feel so sorry...yet I also understand...and also I feel understood. I have been there and we are strangely now united. These beautiful people walked through this with us and have courageously come to see this show knowing it would not be easy.
What a "life giving" sacrifice from such special beautiful people. I will never be the same.
How can I ever reciprocate? I know it sounds trite...but from the bottom of my heart...Thank you all.
"Carry each others burdens..."
Galatians 6:2
