Westby Résidence .

It brought my family a lot of joy. We have a large family and could accommodate all of them comfortably. We had many wonderful reunions and parties. We joined the local country club and the church and were proud of the distinctive home in which we could entertain our friends. My best work to date was my house. It took 32 years to complete the ''artwork'' represented on these photographs.It takes a lot of passion and time to create a beautiful work of art. For me, it was like finishing a perfect painting on a canvas that takes a lifetime to complete.
But, after the large-scale project was finished,I began to experience a strong and odd feeling that I didn’t need or deserve to live in such a luxurious home. I became an activist artist and eventually wanted to renounce my superfluous privileges. Our children had grown up and moved out. My daily anxiety over my environmental convictions took up a lot of space and was no longer consistent with what might have been considered my safe haven refuge home. Being fully aware of the issues facing the future of humanity my husband and I decided to sell after carefully considering that our small personal sacrifice might help to give our children and grandchildren a better world and improve the chance of a secure future for them.
PART TWO:
My entire life has changed as a result of reading these two major publications:
*"Silent Spring", an environmental science book by Rachel Carson, has an exceptional and important message. The book, which was published on September 27, 1962, documented the environmental damage caused by the indiscriminate use of pesticides.
The other was a double page published over 3 weeks consecutively in The New York Times. Reading this I realized that I've spent close to 30 years collaborating with others to try to make the environment better.
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15 years ago I agreed to participate in a series of 6 documentaries entitled ‘’America, America”, to be shown on a very popular weekly French television program called ‘’Strip-tease’’. I did so on the condition that people would allow me to speak about what, in my opinion, was already the most serious issue facing the world at that time: climate change and the destruction of the natural world by pollution and excessive use of chemical pesticides and herbicides. At the time, none of the newspapers, or any TV in France reported on the events that I had already seriously considered and clarified upon my arrival in the USA.