Love Letters, a collaborative exchange of watercolor, ink, and poetry

Love Letters is the result of a long-distance creative conversation between Christine and me. I began each piece in watercolor, then sent them to Christine in Colorado, where she added pen, ink, and poems. Some pieces returned to me for additional layers, while others stayed in their original duet form. Each work captures a moment of dialogue — between two artists, two mediums, and two inner worlds.

Our Blessed Hecate

Artwork by Sarah Graves and Christine Hogg

Poem by Christine Hogg

Is it important

now to know

or to speak?

Is it foolish to offer

a name reducing

you to a label?

I wish not to disturb

other than the self-

important reason

to have mutual

acknowledgement. 

Honest before

you, in awe of your holism,

fortunate to catch

a singular plane snap

of a glimpse of your

balance.  Do I pull

strength from you

because I am of you,

who determines and

destroys so much.

You are needed, and we attune.

I attune to you.

 

The lakes

Artwork by Sarah Graves and Christine Hogg

Poem by Christine Hogg

inverted city

ever present

I could stare

however long

the moment lasted

into the great columns

light atop the tallest

hill you reach

through wavelengths

we meet in the lush

low in branched

drapery.

on treks ashore

if found and resilient,

as we leave delicate,

disruptive still.

forever mossy

limbs lie woven.