This blog is dedicated to celebrating the life of Linda Oldham of Chapel Hill, NC and Cairo, Egypt.
Monday, February 18, 2008
Linda in Chador
During the period mom lived in Egypt, a predominantly Muslim country, she wore the full veil... ...for exactly long enough to take a few pictures!
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When Linge came to visit me in Seattle, she brought a 5 inch stack of photographs. She was planning on visiting her mother after she left Seattle and the photographs were for her mother, but she let me look at them. Interspersed with the photographs were 6 to 8 photos of Linge in chador. She said they were in there to tease her mother who was very concerned that Linge might actually wear chador. She did, however, give me one of them, and I did a small painting of her in chador which hangs in my home studio. Almost everyone who sees it thinks it is me in chador. Linge and I were often asked if we were sisters. We both thought we looked a little alike. Maybe with the mouth and lower face covered we really do. Or maybe, all of my paintings look more like me than the intended subject. I looked for the photograph to send you, but couldn't find it. I will scan the painting and send that.
1 comment:
When Linge came to visit me in Seattle, she brought a 5 inch stack of photographs. She was planning on visiting her mother after she left Seattle and the photographs were for her mother, but she let me look at them. Interspersed with the photographs were 6 to 8 photos of Linge in chador. She said they were in there to tease her mother who was very concerned that Linge might actually wear chador. She did, however, give me one of them, and I did a small painting of her in chador which hangs in my home studio. Almost everyone who sees it thinks it is me in chador. Linge and I were often asked if we were sisters. We both thought we looked a little alike. Maybe with the mouth and lower face covered we really do. Or maybe, all of my paintings look more like me than the intended subject. I looked for the photograph to send you, but couldn't find it. I will scan the painting and send that.
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