Thursday, May 29, 2014

In The View of Gus Bennett, Jr


The man is beyond Scrumptious. Whatever the it is; he shaped it.

See Gus' New Orleans People Project.

JACQUELYN HUGHES MOONEY  Visual Poet/Lecturer/Idealist-Dreamer/Seasoned Storytelling Woman...


 shaped her "rhythm & views" with daydreams, books, dollhouses & coloring books with exuberance as a child in her native New Orleans & later as a teen & adult in Southern California.She sees herself with a NOLa vibe with a West Coast groove.

Jacquelyn, rocking her vibrant rhythmical Big City Women quilted fiber art challenging the beholder to embrace the world with fire & passion.

"Moon" as she is affectionately called by close friends, often incorporate in the quilts, poetry & storytelling divergent patterns that can whisper or shout a compelling story. She want for people to appreciate that even "mistakes"/imperfections/ raw edges can have a beauty of its own.
Highly empathetic & intuitive, her sensitivity to others' plights is tempered with her belief that every person deserves dignity & respect which is the roots of her Fig Tree Project. With her mes affaires belle (my beautiful belongings), Jacquelyn still views the world with a child's wonder yet seasoned as a fully grown Big City Woman.

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— with Jacquelyn Hughes Mooney in New Orleans, LA.

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