The Carry: The Story about how mine is connected to Andrew Wyeth's

The Carry by Ingrid Oliphant

The Carry is named after the a work of the same name done by Andrew Wyeth.

The Carry by Andrew Wyeth

His The Carry was my first magical experience with art. In 2018, just before I fled the desert, I had a very strange vision. I tried to draw it but couldn't come close to what I saw. A horse's tail but not. Sparkles throughout but without context.

When I ran back to Helena, Montana, I ended up in a lovely cabin. Nestled in that safe space, PTSD and fear kept me company but I could sleep and eat and weep and holler and no one could hear me. Then one morning, after a fitful night of kitting myself out for who knows what, reality or paranoia, I stood in front of the credenza. And looked in front of me. Right there, smack dab in front of me, the thing on the wall that been there the entire time I'd been there: that vision. Sparkles and all: The Carry.

Wyeth's The Carry, showed me that I was being carried. I was right where I was supposed to be, that Something Bigger Than Me got me into the desert and the same got me out.

The Carry I created is deeply entwined in how water holds me, much like Wyeth's depiction did. In different traditions, I'm seen as variations of Bird and have become bird in the same way I became Horse, only years later.

This is the Water continuing to Carry me (or you), holding us afloat, moving us right where we need to be and for whom we need to be--and become.

She is 11 x 14" and $230 (including shipping).