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 women & meth 

A response to Gilda's Transcripts by Patricia Maarhuis

Doors and Windows

These are ekphrasic mixed-media works focused on Gilda (participant), her family & friends, dialog, and the "doors and windows" of their relationships.
Gilda:  I didn’t get that knowledge until I went into drug recovery.  Um, I found when I went into recovery [that] was
so interesting for me. To understand that was just like a whole door opening for me. I loved recovery....

So maybe there is, ah, something good about addiction.  Because I did – sought it out and I pounded those doors
and made myself get up and go seek these avenues.  ‘Cause it’s real hard when you’re sick.


Patricia:
  (First thoughts in response to the narrative) Gilda... You've been going through doors your whole life.
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