“…to SEE takes time” Georgia O’Keeffe

O'Keeffe in New Mexico

As a photographer, I pattern much of my visual images after the painter, Georgia O’Keeffe. She was a woman who was truly herself. Life was not without trials, as she suffered a nervous breakdown and family did not understand her. She loved New Mexico and nature. Buying a Ford Model A , that she could hardly drive, she set out to see the beauty all around her. Of New Mexico, she said, “Such a beautiful, untouched, lonely feeling place…such a fine part of what I call the ‘Faraway’. It is a place I have painted before . . . even now I must do it again.”^[ ”

I was impressed and honored, when a young man looked at my photography and said, “Georgia O’Keeffe?’ We talked art and about my inspiration in her work, finding out that this young man was a tatoo artist. He also was an admirer of Georgia O’Keeffe. Never under-estimate our youth! There are still some who know her.

The quote below that I best love is so true of life:

“Sill in a way….nobody sees a flower….it is so small. We haven’t time….and to see …takes time…like to have a friend takes time.” G.O’Keeffe