Inez, my teacher turned friend, in Berlin has sent me her gel print. I had sent her mine and now I have hers. I am suppose to add, overprint, basically alter hers using gel printing.

Hmmmmmm…….

I looked at it and looked at it and looked at it.

Politics???? With a leaf… Where shall I go from here?

So I gel printed layer upon layer of flora

Added a leaf made of paper towels that had been dyed and titled it

“It’s a Jungle out there”

Now I have the other side to create on.

It’s in German but it looks like a Macy’s ad to me. She’s winking. There were so many directions that I could take this.

Is her wink evil? Sly? Teasing?

In the meantime, my husband gave me a birthday card that was a very innocent photo. Reminding me of years gone past.

So, I was thinking. What if we had a way to reassure that young person that we once were?

Would we wink at her? Tell her that everything is going to turn out ok?

So that was the direction she went.

And I titled her “Looking forward, winking back”.

And off to Berlin she flies. Back to where she started.