Our dear dear friend Fimi has passed ...
While we fight away our tears, let's remember that Fimi was an inspiration, a true fighter, who touched everyone with her ability to enjoy life and have fun during these last precious years, and her work and her ideas will live on.
The following words are from her poem Arms Open Wide, which she read at the ACS dedication ceremony last year.
"For I walk hand in hand with that which life
Has dealt me, thanking the universe for every step I take.
Where once I stood in fear and terror
Of not knowing what life would bring,
Now I stand arms open wide."
Hugs
Poppy
2 comments:
Stephanie was my stepmother and when I was a child, she would take me to her prestigious and high-powered graphic design job in Manhattan, but I noticed her real passion was coming home, letting the cats out on the property and gardening. She just loved being outside working. And when I was 11 years old, I couldn’t comprehend her decision to trade the big city and the big money to become a part-time landscaper in the suburbs spending most of her day kneeling in dirt.
Fast forward to her cancer diagnosis. When parts of her were dying, the artist in Stephanie was reborn. And when she discovered virtual life, her passion for art was reignited. Ironically, it was this life that began in her apartment in front of her computer where her love of the outdoors and artistic abilities met, resulting in a series of inspirational landscape and nature art with a message of hope to cancer sufferers and survivors all over the world.
The last time I saw Stephanie aka Artisitic Fimicoloud, she attempted to share Fimi with me. Though I was staring blankly at her, trying to understand intangible art sales and gallery events where real money was exchanged but one would never step a real life foot in, her excitement was very real. She just lit up as she spoke of this joyful place, absent of all things painful, sickly and unpleasant.
Thank you to everyone who cared for and loved Fimi. She found much joy in her last days as a part of your community…her second life.
Janine Acquafredda
Stephanie was my stepmother and when I was a child, she would take me to her prestigious and high-powered graphic design job in Manhattan, but I noticed her real passion was coming home, letting the cats out on the property and gardening. She just loved being outside working. And when I was 11 years old, I couldn’t comprehend her decision to trade the big city and the big money to become a part-time landscaper in the suburbs spending most of her day kneeling in dirt.
Fast forward to her cancer diagnosis. When parts of her were dying, the artist in Stephanie was reborn. And when she discovered virtual life, her passion for art was reignited. Ironically, it was this life that began in her apartment in front of her computer where her love of the outdoors and artistic abilities met, resulting in a series of inspirational landscape and nature art with a message of hope to cancer sufferers and survivors all over the world.
The last time I saw Stephanie aka Artisitic Fimicoloud, she attempted to share Fimi with me. Though I was staring blankly at her, trying to understand intangible art sales and gallery events where real money was exchanged but one would never step a real life foot in, her excitement was very real. She just lit up as she spoke of this joyful place, absent of all things painful, sickly and unpleasant.
Thank you to everyone who cared for and loved Fimi. She found much joy in her last days as a part of your community…her second life.
Janine Acquafredda
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