Here is my painting as it looked on March 12. (This painting is for a special event in Salem to honor Nathanial Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter.") The text I am using, shown below,* is a quotation from the novel. The passage suggests the imagery in my painting comes from that passage: prison bars, with Hawthorne's text written on them, and branches of a wild rose bush seen through the prison window. The shapes of the "runner" branches of the rose bush are positioned to suggest the letter A, which is very significant in the novel. On March 12, I was working on placement of the roses, referring to my sketch. The flowers are very rough, but I was happy with them although they will need to be smaller. To be continued. . . .
*Here is the quotation from Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter:
"But on one side of the portal and rooted almost at the threshold was a wild rose bush covered, this month of June, with its delicate gems which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom in token that the deep heart of Nature would pity and be kind to him."
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