Artists Tammra Sigler and Carolyn Reed are tethered by loss. For Sigler, it’s the loss of her husband of 62 years. He’s in her painting “Blocks and Clouds.”

“I didn’t go out to paint him or about him,” Sigler said. “But when I looked at it afterward and thought about it, that was my secret. Now you know.

Arnold died a year ago. But Sigler remains tethered to him. It’s more than emotional. It’s part of her world view.

“I am talking about all of us being tethered to each other, not just as humans, but as living matter,” said Sigler. “All living matter on this Earth, and all living matter, if you will, in the universe, in the cosmos, and if there is beyond, who knows.”

Carolyn Reed’s mother died when Reed was 20 years old.

Six months ago, Reed came across on old photo of her mother on va

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