excerpt from The Widow of the South

"Time, twisting on and on, always taking away and never bringing anything back, could kill people years before they extricated themselves from their bodies and flew off to God. I had heard her float through the hallways of the house, whispering the names of her children as she blew out the lamps. John Randal, Mary Elizabeth, Martha. It sounded like prayer, like some sort of invocation. I'd been in a Catholic church once, down on toward Natchez, and I'd heard the same sound when the priests approached the altar, muttering the sounds that would bring Christ back to them.

Kym Hepworth / Reliquary / 2007 / mixed media / 8 3/8 x 6 1/8 3 1/4 in. 

 © 2007 - Kym Hepworth. All Rights Reserved. Available at inthecrystalpalace.

I didn't much care for that sort of thing, and I had no faith that a priest could work such magic, but I found myself praying that someday, maybe, Carrie McGavock would perform that miracle, that time would get all wrapped up on itself and confused, and that those children would walk the hallways with their mother again. There was beauty in that woman. Not in her pain, but in the part of her obscured by the pain and the black crinkly dress and the black thread of time. 

Kym Hepworth / The Widow / 2010 / mixed media / 13 1/8 x 9 7/8 x 4 1/4 in. 

© 2011 - Kym Hepworth. All Rights Reserved. Available at inthecrystalpalace.

I saw a young and beautiful woman, a woman who could lift burdens and redeem men. I wanted to be redeemed, I wanted to be absolved. And I wanted that woman, the angel who walked in the cemetery among her dead children and kissed their gravestones when she thought no one was looking, to be the one doing the redeeming. I had no name for that, no word. Just a feeling." 

(source for quote: The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks, published by Warner Books, New York, NY © 2005)

A Backward Glance: Two Etsy Treasuries

inthecrystalpalace has recently been featured in two romantic treasuries on Etsy that evoke a sense of time and place from the past.

Kym Hepworth's assemblage, Daphne, was featured in the treasury, She liked things that spoke to her, curated by IlluminatedPerfume.

Kym Hepworth's Victorian mourning assemblage, The Widow, was featured in Not Forgotten . . ., a treasury curated by mysticdreamsdecor.

Thank you for including us IlluminatedPerfume and mysticdreamsdecor in your lovely treasuries! 

Please click on the links above to see the treasuries on Etsy and visit the shops!

Light and Shadow: new treasuries on Etsy

inthecrystalpalace was recently featured in two treasuries on Etsy:

Fatal Beauty was included in the playful treasury, In a whimsical kinda mood, curated by sealmaiden.

The Widow was included in a dark, surreal treasury, Shadows emerging like old memories, curated by carmenrh

Thanks for including us! Please click on the links to see the items and visit the shops!

new treasuries on Etsy

Here's a look at the Etsy treasuries inthecrystalpalace was featured in over the weekend:

October Dreaming was curated by 88editions and featured Robin Miller's original collage magnet, Lines of Nature

. . . desire . . . was curated by ColorSepia and also featured Robin Miller's original collage magnet, Lines of Nature

Blood Letting was curated by harleypaws and featured Kym Hepworth's mixed media assemblage, Rorschach Inkblot Test

Victorian Halloween 2 was curated by StoneAngelsGaze and featured Kym Hepworth's mixed media assemblage, The Widow.

Snow White in the Roaring Twenties was curated by Steffi138 and featured Kym Hepworth's mixed media assemblage, Vamp! Pola Negri.

Thanks to all of the shops that included our items in their wonderful treasuries! 
Please click on the links to see the treasuries on Etsy and visit the shops!

A Tangled Web - new Halloween themed treasury on Etsy

Halloween themed treasuries are heating up on Etsy! One of inthecrystalpalace's assemblages, The Widow, is featured in A Tangled Web, curated by redtilestudio.

Here's a link to redtilestudio's shop on Etsy - check out their beautiful collectible art blocks and original paintings! 

And here's a link to the treasury on Etsy. Please click on the items and visit the shops!

In Dreams They Come - Etsy treasury

One of inthecrystalpalace's assemblages, The Widow, is featured in a hauntingly surreal treasury, In Dreams They Come, curated by LindzLewDesign on Etsy.

Here's a link to LindzLewDesign's Etsy shop - thanks for including us! 

And here's a link to the treasury on Etsy. Please click on the items and visit the shops!

Them Bones treasury on Etsy

One of inthecrystalpalace's assemblages, The Widow, was recently featured in Them Bones, a treasury on Etsy that was curated by Beverly3.

  

Here's a link to the treasury on Etsy. Please click around on the images and visit the shops!