My cousin Sandy and I grew up a bridge apart: she in Niagara Falls Canada me in Niagara Falls NY. She is two months younger than I.

During the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, she found out she had breast cancer and had a double radical mastectomy.

She also all her life wanted a King Charles Spaniel. So she got Coffee.
more breast cancer surgery.

She is an amazing brave person and I painted Coffee to give her as a gift.

Its an 11x17 watercolor painted on Arches paper


Im going to see her the 27th of this month and I hope she likes it
    


My artwork is titled "Music Spiral" and is drawn on a 3.5-inch square heavy-weight artist tile with black Micron pens.
 
"Music Spiral" was inspired by a quote from Albert Einstein: "Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune intoned in the distance by an invisible player."  

It is in "zendala" format, a Zentangle (R) version of a mandala. In this piece, I wanted to reflect the synergy between music and art, both very powerful tools I rely on for physical and emotional healing. When using this for meditation, I move beyond my own immediate health issues and am better able to  appreciate the universality of experience that connects  us all on our journey through cancer. 

Music Spiral

Cancer can be a kind of winter, an isolation, a loneliness. And  it can also be an anticipation of new experiences and connections, and that is what this photograph is about.  

Winter has its own beauty but I’m looking forward to the snow melting off of our chairs and sitting with friends and talking and laughing and maybe crying.

Coffee, the King Charles Spaniel

By Colleen Mauro

October 24th, 2022

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