Second Line, Crossing Over

Shoulder Ready

Dancing the Habanera

The One Tree

Guardian of the Sacred Space

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Spanish Moss Veil

Navigating Indigo

Cattails 
 
 
An African woman in a long skirt, is gathering cattails by the river in an open scoop basket. She is harvesting the cattails lengths, and they drape across the basket, balanced at her side as she stoops, pulls and carts the cattails beside her. 
 
At home, she uses the roots and pounds them to make a salve, a balm that she sits aside until the full moon. She scoops out the thick ointment in her hands. She rubs both together, then extends them up and out to the sky. 
Then she goes to work. 
Swaying, painting, dancing hands reach into the stars. 
Shards pierce the darkness from the other side. 
The salve fills, oozes, seals, heals. 
She works fast and through the salve, spreading, rippling across time. 
And spaces. 
Re-membering.

Gathering Bulrush for Salve

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Resurrecting the Ancestors

Just Below the Surface #1

Just Below the Surface #2

just Below the Surface #3

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Jazz Kaleidescope

Living the Jazz Life

Mardi Gras Masks

Basin Street Bounce is a riot of Mardi Gras color swatches dancing in the sky while the band plays up close and personal. Papers, glitter and metallics punctuate the piece and the figure who plays a big trumpet.

Basin Street Bounce

Frenchmen Street Quartet

Louis Armstrong & Friends

Twisted

I Am the Sun and the Storm

Where Civilization Ends

A Live Oak, And... #2

Almost Home

Roots, Links, Lineage #3

Roots, Links, Lineage #2

Bayou St. John #1

Roots, Links, Lineage #1

Bayou St. John #2

NoLa Calling brings the sounds, sights and connection of New Orleans past, present and future together in an intimate set of vignettes in mixed media by artist Michelle Ferrier, aka daf. These colorful, musical portraits and scenes invite celebration, connection, reflection, recognition and joy.

Coconut Groove Gallery

Diane

NoLa Calling Me Home