The Linen Memorial

05/06/2024

Happy Cinco de Mayo Mexico's National Day ...and...during my lifetime... Thank you to comparative literature academic and visual arts supporter, my friend and mentor, author Gloria Orenstein Gloria Orenstein , her daughter Claudia Orenstein (Happy Mum's Day 😘soon!) and their fellow academics of the Large Coffee Table Art book, 2016's In Wonderland about the achievements and adventures of the Mexico-City-based female surrealists https://www.amazon.com/Wonderland-Surrealist-Adventures-Artists-Mexico/dp/3791351419 , including Frida Khalo's talent https://www.museofridakahlo.org.mx/?lang=en and during my MFA -- Thanking the Mexican immigrant community there -- Check out the AIA Detroit ...where I spent countless hours practically lying on the floor... in reflection of the large-scale, industrial looking Rivera Murals Museo Mural Diego Rivera Museo Casa Diego Rivera ...only later learning about El Diario de Frida Khalo's small-scale work...See the 2002 movie about their Love Story : diegoandfrida ...when her work became main streamed... https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120679/
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Photo credit: My Mum: Maureen Trouton - Dad (Robert Trouton) and me Lycia Trouton - Artist, Writer, Public Speaker in Tijuana 1986 Summer when we travelled there from my workplace in Los Angeles.
Thanks to my good, long term buddy Sheri Steinemann for the character reference so we could work shifts together at the Front Desk / PBX Operator job in Beverly Hills Hollywood CA USA with the fun Irish and Mexican doormen...😁😂 good memories...

Other Pix: Mum's Retirement Home decorated today.

05/05/2024

On a blustery afternoon in Canada, I support my colleague and peers / consumers of The Fairfield Art Walk in Victoria, BC. Support Local Artists by Buying from Them Directly

06/21/2022

11/01/2021

The Peace Museum’s official post about the acquisition:

This blog post is about an item we were thrilled to accept into our collection in 2020: The Linen Memorial. Read about the artist, Lycia Trouton, and the historical inspiration behind her piece.

10/30/2021

The Linen Museum Bradford UK posted their launch of my project on their website yesterday. Please check it out. Thanks for your support. ———-Healing-thru-Remembering—

06/21/2021

04/26/2020

https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/when-real-life-turns-surreal/

04/26/2020

My heart goes out to those in Nova Scotia https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/when-real-life-turns-surreal/
😞

Leo McKay Jr: A gap has opened between what we thought the world was like and how it now appears. In Nova Scotia, there is surreality upon surreality.

04/04/2020

Slightly prematurely (to final paperwork during the global pandemic), I am pleased to announce that my life’s work “The Linen Memorial” (to Lost Lives) art installation/counter-monument Public Art project is in the process of being accessioned to the accredited Peace Museum in Bradford, United Kingdom. As taken from the museum's website, this institution “tells the stories of peace, peacemakers, and the peace movement; honours the history of ‘people of peace’ – Every object tells a story of someone who has tried to make the world more peaceful; it is a resource for future peace-making and has local, regional, national and international reaches, all aiming to tell diverse stories of peacemakers and conflict resolution.”

The Linen Memorial is an art monument of grief and healing dedicated to the near 4,000 Lost Lives Chronological Names List of persons that died as a result of ‘the troubles’ in Northern Ireland, 1966-2006.

It seems fitting then, that the memorial has found a final resting place, to be professionally archived at The Peace Museum and available for temporary acquisition by other museums and galleries.

Thank you to all the Embroiderers and volunteers over the 20 years who made the memorial happen and to Charlotte Hall, curator of The Peace Museum.