Ellen’s Work Blog
December 2022
I am starting to feel the holidays in the air as I work to finish assembling a couple projects for the Ramp Gallery that have been in process for the past eight weeks.
There are times when I pull out some of the collaborative project pieces that have been stored away for ten or more years and I just sigh. What was I thinking when I asked kids at HealthCorps fairs to paint these small tongue depressors, all in the spirit of emphasizing healthy diet and exercise in their lives? Hot gluing thousands of these can get repetitive, but then I run into a bunch that are tiny masterpieces. I marvel at the high level of creativity reached by so many of these kids, making full-blown paintings on a ½” x 6” piece of balsa wood. And now these kids are in their teens or 20s and probably doing amazing things in their young adult lives to benefit others. I hope they have not lost their exuberance and zest for life. This is a time for rebuilding and we need all that energy.
It reminds me that there are many things that are so positive and hopeful. They are all around us if we just take the time to look.
