These ideas/ inspiration just came to me today when I was lying face down with needles stuck in my back. My Acupuncturist asked me about whether we were thinking of going back to do IVF again soon... I did have a few tears, I told her it's too expensive and she told me to check out a "cheaper clinic" which I might but we are still not sure ... She thinks it's worth it after all the building up of my body/ hormones that we have been doing .. (but we also kinda need to lose more weight which is being obstinate).
The first one is based on the idea that God is holding on to our Embryos ... our little Embabies ...This Psalm is one of my favourites and talks about God's sovereignty, Omniscience (all knowing), Omnipresence (ever present, everywhere), Omnipotence (all powerful) and Holiness.. I am in AWE of Him!! I do believe that each day of my life and their very short lives was part of his plan (even though I find it hard to comprehend why) and I know that he is holding me fast (As well as our little ones).
Our very first Embaby, Dan was 11 cells when we saw it on the screen... I have a vivid memory of blues and purples and the incredulous of the miracle that those little tiny cells was the start of a human life. Sadly we don't have a photo of Dan so I thought this was a good place to start in my artworks. I might do some more of the rest.
I was thinking about whether people might want artworks done of their embabies and this other idea came to me ... so I created a second on, this time of our eighth and last Embaby, Stevie. I tried to make it look similar to the photo that we have from the Grow app from Genea.
I'm really happy with the results of these, and I'm planning to do some more.. wondering about printing and framing them but perhaps I'll do one with all 8 Embabies on it.
I think I might use my Copic markers next time instead of the Ipad but we will see. If you or someone you know might like an artwork made to remember their Embabies drop me a line :)
