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Healing with Pictures
I wanted to share an idea of what we can do with pictures of our loved ones. Nancy Gershman, a digital artist, creates meaningful portraits from photos, memories and stories that we think about every day. Here is a sample of her work:
DREAMSCAPE PHOTOMONTAGE: Myrtle pays homage to the memory of her twin and keeps a promise to her sister. As long as she lives she will keep her nephew - who is a trucker - safe on the road.
ORIGINAL PHOTO:
I know Nancy's work and I’ve seen how she captures the entire essence of a person and the real truth about their character, their passions and their mission in life.
What Nancy does is digest all these photos, memories and stories until they re-emerge as a holistic portrait of the person you love. You see your father, sister, or beloved poodle, thoughtfully placed into a beautiful legacy portrait for you, but also for generations to come. The end result is that her artwork makes you smile or even laugh.
For the 30 - 60 minutes you spend with her by phone, she delivers a meaningful, heartfelt fine art photomontage in the form of an 8 x 10 print (or enlargement). She can also upload the artwork so you can make something to wear or display (photoblanket, photo-purse, photo trivet, etc.) -- however you want to keep that loved one close by.
I encourage you to view the documentary on Nancy Gershman’s work.
You can visit her website: www.artforyoursake.com/healing. She has provided us with her phone number: 773-255-4677 (EST) or you can email her: nancy@artforyoursake.com
Let me know if you have any questions.
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Comment by dream moon JO B on November 6, 2012 at 3:11pm
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still trying to sort out old fotos iv took so many over the yrs i no the old 1s wer took before i woz born now the 1s i take noww i put on disk at the shop for £2 the nxt day they get up 2 200 on now im trying to fix the old 1s up all the 1s tht hav died yrs ago steveo wen he went yelloww from pacrated canser like a 2nd brother 2 me wen he went yellow we all saed he looket like the simpsons but we didnt no he had tht evil deses tht killed him
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trying to sort old fotos out soms so old it is hard to fix the 1st with me and my harf bro and harf sis nobody whonts to sea us sticking to fingers up at eash other or pulling fases at eash other i like to be behind a camra thn in front of 1 my dad woz so funy he woz lifes gentlmen and comeadian allways mad a jok out of his c o p d even wen he had the heartatacks evenn wen he had the strok he still had a good sense of humer even in his diaerys i hav got no sadnes even wen i got dignozed with respity proms did the sam thng shrug it off mak a joke out of it mum saed like father like dortyer wen yore kid diana u dont care u just like bean a kid climing trees and falling in duck ponds
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my dad used to say tht we leron from our mistakes iv made the same mastakes he did he woz allways saying im doing the same thnng he did it histry repeting it self my dad used to say
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Comment by Diana, Grief Recovery Coach on October 31, 2012 at 10:51pm
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Wow, jb, it's wonderful that you have your Dad's drawing. My brother and I have been going through a lot of my Dad's personal items. He saved hundreds of letters he wrote to my mom. We both wish we would have been there more for my Dad - we were selfish young kids that didn't understand how much we would miss him now that he is gone. We never got a chance to say how we really felt. Sometimes you don't know how you really feel until the person is gone. For instance, my ex-husband, who passed recently. I wish I would have done a lot of things differently - but we learn from our mistakes.
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it is true abot fotos i gav sum to my cuzen who i havent sean 4 a bit coz shes bean taking her husband to chemo so i told my great cuzen who we saw yesterday to giv thm to his mum and she woz pleased abot thm coz u get sic of get well carsd u do
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that drawing my dad did he made me put it sum wer saf in 1 of those pocket thngs so they woodnt get damgid he new a lot abot art i just wish he woz still hear to help evry 1 he woz like the jental giant at 6ft 2
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this is 1 of my dads drawings i fond iv put it bac sum were safe he did this 1 in 1993
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i saw this doco yrs ago new york st art wish woz good sum of it shud be in art gallerys not on walls its that goood even over hear sum of the art u sea on raiway building u wonder how thy painet or grafto on with out breaking any bones i allwayz do art the safe way pluss im scared of hights my dad woz a good artist i put his art work sum wer safe only truble is i foget wer i have put it i hav a sister who likes to throw thngs out she takes after my mums sister throws thngs out but i al ways say u shud as k 1st but with me i love art but fotograpy is my bigest pasen as u can sea i hav a lot of fotos on hear mum told me with swans on there i fell in wen i woz a kid but i cant rember that but i woz only 3 the 1st camra i got woz off my brother a 110 1 my sister give to him wen he woz 10 then we i turned 10 my brover gave it to me then wen my nease turned 10 i tryed to give it to her but she didnt wanet i tryed to give to my nefew wen he woz 10 but he wozent intrest in fotograpy i woz the only 1 i the family who took it up i rellize now it woz a gift from god so i will use it then i got 135 camra i got sum good fotos over the yrs till i goy my 1stt didgel camra and this 1 iv got now my vivter i had to save hard foe this camra wish take beter fotos like 3d and has the date on but my 1st didgel camra i gave to my broverand his wife but all i get is yore the fotograper in the family even it family cristings and wedings they get me to do it coz i wont charge
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