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Fairies
Fairies, textile collage, artist: Alison Boston

I sold one of my most admired works of art yesterday. I made a sweet deal with an old school friend who tracked me down on the internet last fall.

She and I started an email correspondence and then last week she announced she just had to have “Conception”.

Well, “Conception” isn’t for sale.

She replied by saying if she couldn’t have that one, she’d like to have Fairies

She must have tapped into my subconscious via the creative universe, because although “Fairies” is listed as “not for sale” I’d been thinking about selling it, so when she said she wanted it, and told me how much money she had to spend, she was close enough to my price that we were able to make a deal that works for both of us.

I feel really good about selling it to her. I feel it will be in a good home. Besides, I have such fond memories of our friendship. I don’t know how we lost contact, I’m just glad we have reconnected, so when she said if she couldn’t have “Conception” she’d like to have “Fairies”, I couldn’t think of a better person to sell it to - and she’s agreed to let me keep the digital image to produce limited edition prints. So for those of you who have been fans of that piece of art, if you’d like to buy a limited edition print let me know.

Back to my friend, and “Fairies”.

I used to sleep over at her place, and there is something of the quality of her house in that piece of art. She lived in a small country house in rural Nova Scotia, heated with a wood burning stove. It was such a cosy place. We’d sleep upstairs in her room, in little bunk beds opposite each other, and talk long into the night the way high school girls do. Later, when I went to university at Dalhousie in Halifax, we shared a house.

Then men got involved in our lives and well - we drifted apart. The men we partnered with are both long gone, but our friendship is still alive.