Below Stairs

Another example of how the Gazette inspires and informs.
All the best quotes are cut out from the top of the newspaper
and I have them in the studio
fastened together with a little yellow clip.

When I was setting up the ironing board and arranging this composition
I grabbed the only intact paper for a prop.

It wasn’t until half way through the painting
after I researched and rendered the upstairs bells
that I actually read the quote.

If my windchimes could talk
this is what they would say…

An old silver bell
the last smile you gave
Hangs at the top of my church.
It rings only when you come through the forest
And stand beside it.

Maxwell Bodenheim