"expected the nexpected” seems like hopeless willing, or like overwhelming desire to alive. These feelings which touched me strongly while visiting in the hall are all in the Hollis Sigler’s painting. Her bright color expressed her endless desire of life, and brave or pain in her battle against disease. Because her frames complement its painting perfectly, I was always intrigued while comparing painting with its frames. There are many frames which recorded her Breast Cancer Journal: “inside she was bleeding”, “change doesn’t come easy for her”, “some days you feel so alive”, ‘in spite of all, she rises in the morning with joy”, “some say leaving this life is like casting off old clothes”, and “she always had hope”. I was so moved while reading these frames, needless to say watching these painting; therefore, someone said that “she was a master at combing image and text in her work”, and she can “brilliantly convey difficult emotional content in a way that viewer can relate to and understand”.
It is a sad tale in the “Walking with the Ghosts of My Grandmother”. Her grandmother died of breast cancer and her mother also died of breast caner, so she said “an individual doesn’t get cancer, a family does”. She expressed the hopeless in the painting. Heavy cloudy sky, strewed the clothes and three dressing tables on the grave indicated that her grandmother will bring her to the place to where she will have gone by the future so. Her childlike painting way in her images shows the meaning of her another painting’s frame, “the beginning of the end”. She told us family story with her special narrative painting.
Is her style of painting near the van Gogh?
This is her charcoal painting. The lines are fine and more childlik
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