She definitely has style.
A self-confident willingness to defend her intuitive good taste combined with a distinctive way of doing anything, puts her at least three years ahead of the curve.
Her personality is exposed through her art. Her photography, revealing her sense of beauty, humanity and unique point of view; her projection onto paper of who she is through her writing; or in the way she breathes life and aesthetics into a room or a house or an environment that make it more desirable than anyone imagined.
I admire her natural gifts of intelligence; her finely tuned eye for detail and keen discerning ear; the perfect sense of balance of color and space; a feeling for the rhythm of relationships between words, people and objects; and her uncompromising willingness to know what needs to be said and stand up and say it.
All of these and more make up a style of her own.
That intended projection of who she really is sets her apart from others . . . a uniquely attractive characteristic that sparks the imagination and makes her life itself a work of art.
The fact that she probably wouldn’t think this writing is about her . . . is testament to the fact that it is.
daniel w. jacobs
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Nice! You know, I just flashed on the truth of your point (which I’d never considered before) that ‘her personality is exposed through her art.’
You look at the many, many portraits she’s done and you see people reaching out of their normal public-face selves, spurred by some recognition, I suppose, that the artist has given them – that she gets something about them that maybe isn’t always noticed by others, something that they admire in themselves but would never be so conceited as to talk about out loud.
Duke