I first met artist Lisa Calvert when I moved to the city prior to having kids. She was my neighbor on Surf, if you know anything about Chicago it’s always been my feeling that everyone lives at least once on Surf. She had an end unit and it had natural light, my apt’s view was the very vocal Puerto Rican lesbians across the way. My landlord was a a nudist mandoline player. At the time I was an art student at the American Academy of Art. Let’s just say I was young. Very young.

She gave me this beautiful piece as a gift in 1986.  Since that was forever ago, I am not sure now of the sequence of events and why, I do recall that we used to have each other over for birthday’s.  She once gave me an asian wallet with rice paper in it, and I still use that wallet to keep my stamps in. I also have a small handful of ornaments from her as well as a stunning candlestick that she gave me at my second wedding.

This piece along with several others and some articles of glass has it’s home in my “pink” section, or the area where all things pink reside. It’s a west window, with a small piece of wall next to it, I’ll highlight the other pink print next week!

I have always adored Lisa’s work. This one I am quite fond of the lines at the *knuckle part* of the stem, and of course it’s overall pinkness. I will always treasure that fact that it was a gift.

Karen Hanrahan ~ Wellness Educator/Nutritional Consultant/Blog Author
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