Mission Statement
Words as Legacy honors the life and work of Diane Granat Yalowitz and Brendan Ogg. Both were gifted writers. Both lost their lives to brain cancer. And both lived in the same community of friends.
Two collaborative projects - "Articulation" and "A Leaf of Knowledge" (now in progress) - evolved naturally as our community felt the pain of loss and the need to heal. Using the words of Diane and Brendan, we wrap, we knit, we listen and we share. The result is not only the reshaping of their words into a new form, but also a shared transformation of something greater than ourselves, especially as the collaboration takes its physical shape. The projects began from a sense of loss but the passage of time in creating these pieces embodies and reflects the healing process that flows out of a year’s effort in wrapping Diane’s words around paperclips or in knitting the panels of yarn that surround the woven words of Brendan’s poetry. We honor them word-by-word, stitch-by-stitch, memory-by-memory, a legacy to the words of the lives they lived and the indelible contributions they made.
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