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Kathi Nordone Beautybellajoy
1986 Once Upon a time ~ not so long ago, in a dark closet, in a dark season, a college student found a framed "Angel Print". Her loving sister said, "Dad gave it to me". You can have it.
Inspired with hope, she sketched it through the night. She found and thanked her estranged father, tried to remind him of his innocence, and for a few years he agreed to send more Angel prints, even after saying "I'm no good, I killed people in the Korean war. She knew he was. Good. After all, he found, gave away and I suppose believed in Angels.
1986 my Pencil Sketch & first greeting card
6 Years later
Angel of Forgiveness
SONG
1992
Inspired by another Angel image, this time on a postcard; instead of a pencil sketch, she made a painting. The very next day moved to a big city, hoping to find a better way. All the while, carrying the postcard in a dollar glass frame and leaving the original painting with a friend (the lady who bought her first Angel card) (above).
1992 Postcard
1992 Original Painting
After 2 weeks in the new city; sick and needing a resting place, she called her father. She wanted a success story first, not the 'Not enough greeting card sales message' but the 'No more hardship one'.
As she sat silently, on the kitchen floor. He said,
"Meet me tomorrow, Sunday at 26th & 6th. I have something for you, you're gonna love it! She cried more.
Then walked in the rain, towards the path train, with her
Angel postcard in the dollar glass frame.
The next day she made it to him, he handed her a huge, hefty bag.
She unraveled and unraveled ~
and there
within her arms was the Angel, the Angel with the lute,
Only it was antique Gold and Bigger too.
Her "Angel of Forgiveness"
her Angel of Truth.
The Gilded Gold Antique Print her father handed her in a hefty bag.
26 & 6th
CHELESEA STREET NYC
1992
Her painting of the daughter, the art student now also musician
with her father "dear 'Ol dad" and the Gilded Angel of Forgiveness print 1992.
Her Dear "Ol Dad hung it front & center of where he sat, next to his
Heart Break Ridge Korean War Photos.
RIP Dad. July 4th, 2023
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