It did not take long for us to locate the Stone Angel in the cemetery. Allegedly, this is supposed to be the Stone Angel alluded to in Margaret Laurence's novel The Stone Angel in which the very first paragraph starts like this:" Above the town, on the hill brow, the stone angel used to stand....." The author struggled with a proper title when she finished the draft of her book when it dawned upon her that the title should be the very first few words in the book The Stone Angel as it really was a metaphor of what her female antagonist Hagar Shipley's self discovery was all about. It was really a unique painting experience for me to stand there painting in a cemetery where row upon rows of flower draped tomb stone lie silently all seemingly trying to tell their own stories.
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