The making of ,and the cold tightened it's fist,details below,the red pieces are felt and the larger red areas are red wool and red sand,the blue areas were painting on a torn shirt

This piece is my personal response to the feelings I had about the book,between the shades of gray,about a Lithuanian young girl who draws pictures on anything she can to leave clues to her father about her where abouts. She has been sent to Siberia where the cold and life in the work camp are impossible to endure but she does.This is meant to be  a beautiful piece to represent the beauty she finds in such ugliness and the colors are symbolic of the pain and anger and blood she endures and the blue is simply about the extreme depression and cold she lives through.I listened to a scared Native American chant whist making this piece which evoked extreme emotion in me.Yet this chant and the story were beautiful.I hope this helps some of you to understand the piece better.Feedback is always welcome.