Before Shelter ***Trigger Warning***

[theHandpuppet]

7. Brings back memories of the 70's

I was working at an arts center in downtown Cinci where the floor above served as a registration/processing center for the battered women's shelter. (The women would be taken from there to a secret, safe house.) Many was the day when I'd step into the elevator to see women whose faces were beaten to an unrecognizable, bloodied, black & blue pulp. I'd gather up stacks of drawing and prints and take them upstairs, then place them on a table with a sign, "Free Art". That might seem like an odd thing to do but all of the art would be snatched up in a matter of minutes. I guess the art served as a reminder that there is still beauty in the world and it gave them that thought to hold on to.