In the frame, there sleeps a giant slowly rising from the snore. An eyeball giant enough to see it all. And blink it into oblivion.
Footnote: Sweet Pea is an unassuming power source. She has a giant ability to see things for what they really are – which is often not the same as how others see them. She travels lightly and makes wise decisions about what she takes with her – and what she leaves behind. The release of the floating ‘bobble’ might suggest she’s off to somewhere new.
(Sweet Pea Card Collection 2024 available online at Fremantle Art Centre Found. J.Browne 2023/24).
Sweet Pea is monumental despite smallness. Her expression, a reminder to keep an ‘arm around the shoulder’ of our little spirit, so we too can feel the comfort and the power of the collective ‘me’ – in all its forms and flaws and misadventures. Direct our lives from within (and before). All the while encompassing the full and blooming range of vital emotion that got us here.
Sweet Pea’s arrival story:
I’m on a swing between rage and exhilaration. Glad I have both or I’d be wrapped around a pole in chains. But I’m swinging high and riding through the back swing that has me face down in the dirt. Then legs swing through to the rescue. The sky opens and says;
‘Hello little spirit. Let go now Sweet Pea. You can fly …’
(J.Browne 2023/24).
