Love in the Time of Corona

Artist Bio

DiTa is an artist and poet currently exhibiting at Local Color Gallery, Maine Farmland Trust Gallery and the Brick Store Museum Gallery in Kennebunk. She often creates ekphrastic poems to accompany her art work. She currently resides in Rockland, ME.

Creative Process

“The Sailor’s Valentine is traditionally a shellcraft arranged into a geometric mosaic. They might bear a message given to loved ones from men at sea. My valentine is from a stranded sailor architect stuck in Panama because of the pandemic. The poem on the edges reveals his plight: Love in the Time of Corona. Poem: “Celtic tradition of Handfasting” Fasten your abiding hand to mine, Tied together with a braided twine, Exchange rings and vows in bright earthsine, Knots tied and braided like vines entwined, Each one promises love til death do part, With each breath love destines.“