A Love Letter to Love by Artist Mimi Young

February is all about Love, so we started this series to explore the theme of Love Letters in the Hudson Valley. Artist Mimi Young and several local changemakers and visionaries were invited to express their ode to love in original ways, to honor any person, being, or place in the region.

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I sit and watch

I watch you
do what you do

I see you move gracefully,
deliberate as you do it

What else do you do

Your rich voice reaches me
I can see your lips moving,
smiling

I need to leave.

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Read More Love Letters Here

A Love Letter to our Hudson Valley Rivers by Eric Archer Dahlberg

A Love Letter to Community by Amanda Cassaday

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About Hudson Valley Artist Mimi Young 

Mimi Young, a multimedia artist, has lived in Olivebridge NY since 2016 and is involved in the Hudson Valley arts scene. She and her husband, Richard Hall, are the videographers behind littlebitcreates.

Mimi Young’s work has always been about mark making, ranging from gestural, calligraphic lines to organic sinewy shapes. She references aspects of her immediate surroundings, mostly distressed and disturbed rural settings as well as domestic situations.

“I am excited by what I can’t see, what is hidden in plain sight and the realization that what is not there is just as important as what is. These disparate elements forming incidental relationships and the patina that emerges creates a unique history.”

While working, she is thinking of a story; a story of the images she is creating, the space where they sit and their scale and relationship to each other. She implies a narrative rather than force one. Some work is the full story while others are CliffsNotes or short stories.

Connect with Mimi via  Website |  Instagram

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Click HERE for more of our “Love in the Valley” Series.