Dear Valeria,
At the dinner table when I was very little, I would hear people bickering... To escape the bickering, I started modelling the soft bread with my fingers. With the dough of the French bread --sometimes it was still warm-- I would make little figures. And I would line them up on the table and this was really my first sculpture.
Best wishes,
Louise Bourgeois
Dear Valeria,
Fond regards,
Vivian Maier
Dear Valeria,
So who's more adult - somebody who works like mad to avoid a problem or somebody who works like mad to solve it?
Best regards,
Janet Kagan
Dear Valeria,
A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory.
LLAP,
Leonard Nimoy
Dear Valeria,
won’t you celebrate with me
what i have shaped into
a kind of life? i had no model.
born in babylon
both nonwhite and woman
what did i see to be except myself?
i made it up
here on this bridge between
starshine and clay,
my one hand holding tight
my other hand; come celebrate
with me that everyday
something has tried to kill me
and has failed.
the warmest hug,
Lucille Clifton
