Christina’s World

Andrew Wyeth, Christina’s World

Andrew Wyeth. Christina Olson. 1947. Curtis Galleries, Minneapolis.  2012 Andrew Wyeth

Sharing with imaginarygarden The Tuesday Platform  Imagined By Kerry O’Connor

This, this is my world.
You see brown grass. Grey walls.
Limitations. You may even
pity me. Don’t. I travel farther
than you ever will. I see things you
can only image. I hear the wisdom
of free blowing breeze, the comfort
of wide open spaces. A bottomless
sky compels me to look up, a billion stars
plead with me to look within, black clouds
remind me of the refreshing after the rain.
And, home, home, my castle on the rise
from where I preside, queen of my destiny
soaring on invisible wings of wonder.
Challenging life on my own terms.
What more does a human need?

 

1. There Was a real Christina. (more info here(MentalFloss)

The 31-year-old Wyeth modeled the painting’s frail-looking brunette after his neighbor in South Cushing, Maine. Anna Christina Olson suffered from a degenerative muscular disorder that prevented her from walking. Rather than using a wheelchair, Olson crawled around her home and the surrounding grounds, as seen in Christina’s World.