04/27/2025
I completed this front door etching yesterday to pay homage to my deeply profound connection to Jay, the love we shared, our years together, the loss I feel. We always called him Jaybird and I am a crow, collecting trinkets and baubles. Jay had a safe which I hadn’t opened before, in it were a collection of fortune cookie fortunes (among other things), important enough to be squirreled away in the safe. The one that touched me most said “Your lover will never wish to leave”. In the nest were the locket that the keys in the bird’s beaks fit, his Marine corp pin, several of our gems and the fortune.
It took weeks to design and complete and I feel it’s my best work to date. Now each time I walk into my home, our home this will speak of us.
