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“HOME” AND “FAMILY”
GROW DEEP SOUTHERN
ROOTS(AND VICE-VERSA)
My family is traceable to the late 1700's in upper South Carolina. Though I don't have service records, two of my great- great grandfathers, Samuel Waits and Tuck Turner were living in the Edgefield District of S.C. at the time of the Civil War and were of an age to fight for the Confederacy.
My great grandmother, who I knew well, was born 10 years after the war ended and spoke of the hardship of those years. This was a time when the Civil War was spoken of as "the recent unpleasantness".
After moving around the area through the 19th and early 20th centuries, the family settled in the Greenwood/Ninety Six area of the state. And, thus I was Southern born!
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My mixed media painting, "Home", is rooted in my reflections on my Southern roots. Family has always been a "sacred institution" and home a place of refuge no matter how far away your life took you. Faintly shown in the attic of "Home" are photo transfers of my great-great grandparents, Tuck Turner and Savannah May Turner in Edgefield, S.C. around 1870.
