1993b_Chidrens_Portrait_Turner.txt

Personal Note 2
Owner:        Martha Ellyn Nelson
Chapter:      Dedication
View:         90 degrees
Type:         Portrait
Location:     Inside
Perspective:  1
Season:       All Seasons
Family:       Children's Portrait
Scales:       1 Scale
Time:         Trailing Eternal Clouds
Concept:      Continuation
Interval:     1 Minute Pose

Portraits of:

                           (Howard) Roice Nelson, III
          Benjamin Bengt Nelson
                                                 Paul Frederick Nelson
                                     Melanie Robbyn Nelson
Sara Ellyn Nelson
                      Robert Llewellyn Nelson
                                                Painted in December of 1990

This is a standard group portrait, except for the worlds without number behind
the children.  These lights represent our spirits. and pure light or Energy
(E=mc**2).  The exception is the shooting star, which is Lucifer falling to
earth to tempt us to follow him.  In the words of William Wordsworth
(1770-1850):
   Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
   The soul that rises with us, our life's star,
   Hath had elsewhere its setting.  And cometh from afar
   Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness,
   But trailing clouds of glory do we come
   From God, who is our home
    Ode (Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood)
        [1803-1806] Stanza 5

It seems appropriate to start this book with our children's portrait, since
this work was undertaken as an attempt to pass on a journal of my feelings,
philosophical musings, and thoughts to our children, and across the
generations to their descendants.  Since the divorce and remarriage, there are
4 additional children in my family.  

Since this painting is not the same size as the other ones, I plan to have 
Ken Turner paint another panel, like he did for the Family Reunion, with a 
painting of Heather Nielson, Audrey Nielson, Rachel Nielson, and Matthew 
Charles Nielson at about the age they were when my six kids sat for this 
painting.  This panel will be owned by Andrea, and will be printed for 
inclusion in the book Prime Words as being connected to this painting.  
The parameters and background will be the same as this painting.