When someone important in your life passes away, you often wish you could talk to them one last time. While it's not possible, Japanese garden designer Itaru Sasaki sought a way to do this when his cousin died in 2010. In an effort to connect to him, Sasaki set up an old telephone booth in his garden. The phone has no religious connotations but is simply a way to deal with loss. He said in an interview, "Because my thoughts couldn't be relayed over a regular telephone line, I wanted them to...

My chosen theme for this series, Femina, is loss. It's specifically the loss of my son. I looked for a somber fabric and chose this one by Robert Kaufman. The heavy sky reflects the feelings I wanted to convey. I wanted to keep the story of my loss simple and decided upon a wilting flower. It both symbolizes my son and how I felt at his passing: defeated. I looked on-line at flower blossom and then did sketches of my own. I ultimately drew the multi-petaled flower below. Next I chose the...

Leaves--The Poetry of September This is my third in a series of artworks dedicated to the great outdoors where I live in the United...