Pocketbook

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    Photo: Stephen Pitkin/Pitkin Studio
1982
Paint and pencil on paper
10.5 x 14 inches
Collection of
Souls Grown Deep Foundation
Description

In 1982, close to death, Rowe created Pocketbook. The pocketbook is surrounded by dying flowers in the four corners of the drawing. Rowe’s closest personal possession, her purse, becomes her traveling bag for the longest journey of her life. It is blue, inscribed with three living flowers, and floats on a red ground like a spaceship transporting her soul to the heaven she had been waiting to visit.