Comments on: Heavy Wings

By: Ronne Pierce

Ronne Pierce — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 20:55:19 +0000

So glad you didn’t say silent. Glad you let us see you struggle in times like this because it helps to know that even the most joyous of us can have moments of fear, doubt and sadness. And just by making work through it you have given me and I am sure many others inspiration. It was easy to shut down after the results and say ‘I am too sad to make work’…seeing this and hearing your words let me know that aside from activism it’s the one thing we can do to let ourselves and others heal. Hope you are enjoying this celebration of gratitude, but I know you didn’t need a special day to remember to be grateful. <3

By: Fit BMX

Fit BMX — Sun, 13 Nov 2016 17:51:49 +0000

I was so disgusted with this entire election process, it was such a sham all the way around.
I have been planning to move out of the US for a year now, and this has just sped up the process.
I mostly just separate myself from all of it, I don’t read or watch the news, and I don’t talk politics with anyone. I like to live in my own world, where it is the way I like it. This is the best way to survive these days, reject reality. Now you all really think I am crazy! LOL
Wonderful photo, and a big hug to you and everyone else. 🙂

By: Samantha Pugsley

Samantha Pugsley — Sat, 12 Nov 2016 09:06:10 +0000

This reaches me at such a personal place. My heart is aching. I am in so much pain for myself – as a woman, as someone who identifies as queer. But I am also in pain for so many of my friends who have spent years fighting for liberties only to now worry about them being taken away. I am in pain for a country divided by hate. I have been in mourning for all of this and more since Tuesday.

Like you, I decided it was time to create. I’m not doing conceptual work these days. I’m dressing up and taking personal style photos. But despite the heaviness in my heart and my complete lack of motivation, I dressed up, I photographed, I wrote.

Only one thing is certain to me now: keep making art. All kinds of art. Any kind of art. We are going to need art more than we’ve ever needed it before.

By: Meri

Meri — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 21:49:00 +0000

This is absolutely incredible – your words and your art. Thank you for sharing. I have been feeling the same way. <3

By: brookeshaden

brookeshaden — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 20:21:11 +0000

In reply to JULIE A FRASER.

Thank you Julie! Prints can be purchased through my galleries here, whichever is closest to you: http://brookeshaden.com/prints/ 🙂

By: brookeshaden

brookeshaden — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 20:20:37 +0000

In reply to Margherita Introna. Thank you Margherita! Your support is so important to me!

By: brookeshaden

brookeshaden — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 20:20:23 +0000

In reply to paulo carvalho. <3 <3

By: JULIE A FRASER

JULIE A FRASER — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 20:19:16 +0000

Absolutely love this!! can you only purchase your prints through a museum?

By: paulo carvalho

paulo carvalho — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 15:26:46 +0000

When we woke up the next day, everyone here in Portugal was shocked! How is it possible? Such a result has led many people to say that Americans are the stupidest people on the planet! As if we here are the most intelligent!! And that leaves me in a great sadness, because if there is an American whom I am very proud to know, it is you. Whenever they said that, I think of you. A person who believes that everything we create from the heart is a gift for someone else whose heart needs to receive it, can only be a good person. I have some concern for this result, but not fear. We are not alone and together we will find hope in the darkness and believe in the power of goodness. Thank you for being who you are. xx

By: Margherita Introna

Margherita Introna — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 09:23:37 +0000

A beautiful, honest and moving post Brooke. As I watch from afar, yet I feel the sadness echoed in my own country’s issues, I am given hope because there is comfort in knowing there are more and more kind people in this world… I am not alone xx