Christmas Presence

Perspectives from The Artist's Road

A Matter of Opinion 12 x 9” WC Laura G. Young

Our Perspectives comes from Colorado artist, Laura G. Young. We have painted together many times at the Susan K. Black Foundation Workshop in Dubois, Wyoming. Laura shares her thoughts about the gifts we receive when we are present in our art.

I’ll never forget a conversation I once had with my grandmother.

“As you get older,” she said, looking out the car window as I, a newly licensed driver, cautiously navigated traffic, “time goes faster and faster.” She continued, “I look in the mirror and think, ‘Who’s that old lady?’ I feel like I was your age just yesterday.”

Just yesterday.

As another year draws to a close, I’m starting to understand that she wasn’t just using a figure of speech. Time really does seem to be accelerating, like an evening toboggan ride down an icy hill. My experiences are becoming more abridged, more porous. Last week can blur into last month, or an event fifteen years ago.

I think it has…