The Women Of God Know This
48"x x 25"h
2005
Not for Sale
hand dyed cotton, thread, batting
dyed,discharged, fused, machine quilted

ARTISTS STATEMENT
Pictured are (left to right) Ruth May Marble Hoisington, Martha Acenath Hakes Marble, Nancy Lee Montgomery, Edith Ruth Hoisington Montgomery, ancestors and mothers who have come before me, from whom I have much to learn. When I struggle with the difficult task of motherhood I look to them.This quote by Neil A. Maxwell says what I feel of their work and mine. "When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies? The great armistices made by military men or the peacemaking of women in homes and in neighborhoods? Will what happened in cradles and kitchens prove to be more controlling than what happened in congresses? When the surf of the centuries has made the great pyramids so much sand, the everlasting family will still be standing, because it is a celestial institution, formed outside telestial time. The women of God know this."

THE ORIGINAL PICTURE
The baby is my Aunt Nancy, The woman on the right is my “Grammie” Montgomery who died when I was a young teenager. “Nana”, her mother is on the far left. I remember Nana only as a very old woman who lived in a fascinating house full of china painted dolls and figues with desert tortises in the back yard. Yes she looks like a sister to Grammie as she had her when she was very young. I don’t know much of anything about Martha Hakes Marble, Nana’s mother. I wish I did.

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