The Green Door

My focus in doing my blog is to share my artwork, my thoughts, stories and my life. I’m sorry to tell you, I’ve decided to not share anymore about My Journey with Helena. My story rattled the cage of an unbalanced individual who went into a denigrating attack of Helena as a victim and the Polish people during World War II. Obviously, his words are not something I nor you would ever post or seek to read.

Unfortunately his comment did bring to my attention that the Internet serves as a forum for these individuals. Hurt and disrespect for even the most innocent survivor of one of the worst periods of human history is accessible online. I wont allow Helena or my blog to be a target by telling her story.

I wanted you to know the reason. Be assured Helena is very precious, very much loved and a part of my daily life. I thank you for your interest and support.
Vikki

The Green Door
The green door is on the side of a store called the ‘Egg Market’ near where I live. Don’t you love that name? I fathom the place was an Egg Market at one time, but today it’s just a country store and diner.

When you go into the store the floorboards creak under your feet. The aisles are terribly narrow and the cabinets are made of old sculpted wood with heavy bowed glass. The screen door is just one of it’s entries. I would wager a bet its part of the original market. It caught my interest because I remembered seeing screens like this on really old places in the south. I think chicken wire and mesh may have been the first form of screening before contemporary screens, as we know. This mesh is actually a loosely woven fabric.

Although it appeared to have been repaired many times, the door still serves its function. It’s large metal hinges made this horrendous noise when it opened. Every piece of wood was well worn and tattered with layers of paint. The hook was huge and didn’t make sense at first. There was no eye for it, or place to put an eye on the surrounding wood, but there it hung. As I reached to open the door, it occurred to me that the oversized hook was installed to serve as a door handle.

The painting was simply a study of the mesh and chicken wire. I selected a good-sized canvas- 36”x 24” knowing- the larger the canvas, the easier it would be to execute the detail. The little girl (a product of my imagination) serves only as something visible through the door. Her purpose is to soften the harshness of the door.

The screen door is just an old antique. It’s is a product of time long gone and people past. While the world it came from changed or disappeared, it stayed the same.
Vikki

The Green Door is on my website under the Misc. Link. It was one of the first works I did when I retired. It is one of my more expensive works at $1200 Prints are available in various sizes.