where she continued her calligraphic business working on the Jewish Community Foundation, Book of Life as well as the Wm. Booth inscription on the Salvation Army Mural in Prescott. Her work is now represented in many private collections as well as the Wyoming State Art Museum and the University of Wyoming Art Museum. Now as a full-time painter she is exploring text as image poetry. 

Artist Statement: 

“To be sure language and writing are two of the most important inventions of the human species. They have helped us to become observers to our own thought processes and develop our self-awareness. This unique mindfulness has been a huge tool in our evolution. But, what was the trade-off? Have our intuitive senses been diminished or maybe completely lost? The amazing symbols we now have in lettering have many limitations which I have painfully found in my calligraphic pursuits. The chatter of my brain, its continual dialogue and my use/abuse of language has limited my access to the larger natural world. Because I love letterforms and quotations, I will continue to use them, but with the intention of bringing them back to their sources. These source beginnings are where our symbolic tools began nudging meaning along the road of expression. When expression was still connected to feelings and not power. Articulation was not a knife to separate but a sharing and a joining. I would like to rediscover that joining –metaphorically (opening up the possibility of meaning without a common language). And with luck even moving toward using western sound symbols that do their own meaning, like ideograms, which are seen in Oriental calligraphy. Can we build a bridge which allows us to sense our ancestors’ basic unity with the earth, before language was only connected with specific cultures? And do it in today’s technological world of sound bites? I would like to try.” 

Also see Sid’s work at: sid-freeman.pixels.com or contact her at wordsfly507@gmail.com or (928) 449-0974.