In my house it is propped up on the shelf in my studio — after all it is the only surviving piece of childhood artwork done by this particular Creative Director. It is made by a girl waiting for who she would become — somehow already knowing.
I can’t help but smile when I look at it. It’s a simple child’s landscape drawn with colorful magic markers. The sky is the brightest blue. Across the bottom, colorful flowers bloom and sway in a garden of tall green grass. You can almost hear the birds singing in the straight-up puffy-topped tree from which they nest. Stylized butterflies float high, lit by a hot sun. Across the center of plate in large colorful letters is the word SPRING — written with a curlycue effect. I know this little girl who created this plate so well. I can still see her sitting at the art room table orchestrating the two-dimensional scene on the paper. The dance of creating Spring on this plate was done by this Creative Director as she was inventing who she would become.
I am looking at this plate today — decades later. Outside there is 10 inches of new fallen snow. It has been a particularly cold snowy winter. All I want is for Spring to arrive. I stop short of wishing days away. I catch myself staring at the snow too long as I will the sun to warm the earth and send psychic “hang in there!” messages to the fish that are frozen in my small pond. I remind myself that when the creative pieces come together visions can bloom even when there is a foot of snow on the ground… All I need is a piece of paper and a handful of colorful magic markers!
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MARY CAROL SULLIVAN IS A CREATIVE DIRECTOR who will challenge your established ideas and offer fresh perspectives.
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