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Halfway through the year and I finally decided how to theme the blog. Yeah, I'm sorry about being MIA; I'm even more unfocused than normal this year. So I'm sitting at my computer and thinking, "what the heck am I'm going to focus on?" Since I don't know how to focus anymore, the answer came in a moment of non-focusing. Subjects. As in, things. People. Figures of a certain sort. For instance, in order to ease into this momentum (did you catch that oxymoron there?), I'm doing angels today. Why? Because I know them. A lot of them. Angels represent something different for each of us. They can be spiritual, or emotional, or representative of something we're looking for whether it's peace and tranquility or the knowledge that we are only human but strive to be more. And here they are, in no particular order. The Stagliano Angel This angel, by Giulio Monteverde, guards the Oneto family monument at the Stagliano Cemetery in Genoa, Italy. I...

Mike has been doing a lot of research about the Armenian Genocide, and one of his most recent sculptures is of an angel that will be used as a memorial for a gravesite. In the past few years I have lost many people I love, most recently a young, 20-year-old girl who I was very close to. It's been heartbreaking, and I decided to do this post on the Monmartre Cemetery in Paris because of the way we use art to help in our grieving process. I could've picked from several cemeteries, and though the Staglieno is my favorite, I'm saving that for another day when I can really put together a lot their most gorgeous pieces. Tombs at the Monmartre Cemetery, picture from Ila Chateau The tombs alone in this place are amazing, building up a miniature city of the dead, clearly protecting the bodies and souls of those who've gone before. There are beautiful plants and flowers, well-kept and beautified out of respect.   Didsbury Monument, "Douleur" I can't ...