SIZE:
34”x34”

DETAILS:
100% Silk Scarf with a hand-rolled hem
Based on the original painting “The Shape of Care”
Artist Collaboration featuring Jenny Grumbles and Mione Plant
Artist signatures on bottom right corner
Hand wash and lay flat to dry; or dry clean

ABOUT THIS WORK:

If Care had a shape, what would it be? A shape flowing and curving, or broad and unbending?

Could Care be a triangle? Strong and not timid, her base a foundation of support. Pointing her child and herself towards exploration, towards beauty, towards truth.

The shape of Care both solid - filled with her presence and her nurture - and open - the spaces between allowing room to breathe, to play in pattern and color and texture.

Her shape the creative output fueled by the harmony of opposites - of light and dark, of solids and patterns, of structure and freedom, of plans and spontaneity, of challenge and ease, of right following wrong, of independence and interdependence, of motherhood and selfhood.

Her shape evolves beyond the singular facet of motherhood, towards a union of all the identities that light her up; a complete and multifaceted gem.

We are the shape of Care.

- Mione Plant

My work = a direct representation of how I roll. Quick strokes. Not bothering to think through any potential negative consequence. Grasping for light, and the brightest colors possible. Drowning out silence, trying to ignore any sadness.

I love painting children, meaningful memories, candid moments with tons of light. I search for those moments all day. I’m a feel good person. I want anything and everything that will make me feel joy.

Im a spaz with anxiety. I don’t like to turn towards the angst, so I use it as fuel to keep going - to paint hard, mom hard, and love hard.

Mione would ask, what is the shape of all that I just wrote? I would say a sunshine with zig zags and broken lines, and maybe a pink heart or two.

Making art with Mione Plant was just what I needed. It satisfied my obsession with finding joy, yet calmed my soul and made me turn towards my angst instead of cover it up and run. Her shapes are calculated. They are careful and calming. She makes you really think about it. She made my painting into the shape of the person I want to be for myself, my son, and the world. She is beautiful in a way that makes you cry.

I was just talking on the phone with a BFF about something hard in her life I had been through already. When we hung up she text me, “You’re the best. I can’t believe you don’t cry.” I don’t very often. Maybe “the shape of care” is eventually a teardrop.

If care was a shape, what would it be? Mione says maybe “it evolves beyond the singular facet of motherhood, towards a union of all the identities that light her up; a complete and multifaceted gem.”

- Jenny Grumbles

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