Don't forget to
Blossom & Bloom

Title: (Don't forget to) Blossom & Bloom
Artist: Cynthia Carson
Medium: Mixed Media (Leather)
Year created: 2019
Size: 15.25 cm / 6 inch round
About:
We all have the potential to blossom and bloom within us.
Just like a beautiful tree in springtime.
The idea was born one winter day, when I was in the car with my husband and looked at all the "dead" trees. My mind was still mainly blank, and I still heavily struggled with Aphasia, at that time. I told him, "I feel like a tree." I didn't say like a dead tree, but truthfully that's what I meant. I was blank, I didn't know where "I" was. Maybe I was dead like those trees. He didn't understand what I was trying to say.
Eventually, I realized that trees aren't dead, but kinda sleeping.
Maybe I was just in a winter slumber, too? Not really alive, but not dead either?
Don't forget to Blossom and Bloom became a piece about not giving up, and keep fighting for oneself, to find the strength to wake up in spring (or whenever it is your time) to blossom and bloom.