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.

Coconut Groove Gallery

Basin Street Bounce

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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Sounds Like Jazz

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Miles "Round About Midnight

Second Line, Crossing Over

The One Tree

Bayou St. John #1

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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.

NoLa Calling Me Home

African echoes

Coconut Groove Gallery

collection: Fine Art

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Basin Street Bounce

Gathering Bulrush for Salve