Artist’s Statement

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“Fiddleheads” is based on excerpts from the poem "Prelude and Fugue in Early Spring" by Esther Margaret Ayers.  Here are the excerpts:

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“At the first note a fiddlehead fern

lifts a green scroll, calls others,

who come, curled and ancient, who pause

in new light upon their stems, trembling—

these who cannot travel but expand, rooted

in a music like sap, which must rise.”

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“We hold our breaths

as ferns unfurl, fronds spread,

hands join here at the end,

the beginning: only us now,

rain, and the sun,

which fall and shine on the evil

and the good.”

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                 Darlene Strand