![]() ![]() ![]() In Japan, she bought me a kimono, too (called a “yukata” for day dress)! On the wall behind her beading table - where she beads dogs, fish, birds, scenery, dragonflies, armadillos or the portraits she paints - is some Asian art by her and HER Mommy! Mama’s childhood kimono from Chinatown hangs there with a photo of my sister, Tzeitel, wearing it when she was little. Mama has left me five times to go to Japan: SHE’S CRAZY ABOUT IT, so we have a lot of Asian pieces in our house. I watch Mama from the bed or on a stack of Asian pillows on the floor. But then my oldest brother, Austin, sent a vintage bedroom set, so once again it’s an art studio/ spare bedroom. That would be in my brother Lochlan’s old bedroom-turned-art studio after his furniture was gone. When we’re at home in Wisconsin, most days she starts sewing beads onto something. The kooky thing is that they take me back to Texas every March so Mama can do art festivals. They adopted me and I got to move into this crazy musical artsy house. Paul, Minnesota, where I met my parents, both singers and musicians as well. I was found on the lam in Texas, fostered out, then driven to St. Mommy’s artist name is Scarlet Lake, but her real name is Nancy Erickson Dutmer, sometimes NED, and I can’t live without her!! In fact, I don’t know where I’d be living if she hadn’t adopted me. My quizzical look implored her to hear my thought, “What does an artist do?” She said she is a painter, bead embroiderer and a mixed media creator - which is why we move from room to room just when I’m all snuggled down for a nap. Mommy asked me if I could write about her life as an artist. ![]()
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