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Tag: Cystic Fibrosis

Why St. John’s: Lucky, Lucky Me.

April 25, 2018

I used to teach with this wonderful woman, we all lovingly called “Trigger.”  Trigger was old school, she was a teachers teacher and she used to say all the time, “Lucky, Lucky Us.” I’m not much of a believer in luck, because I think we all make a life from the choices we make, knowingly … More Why St. John’s: Lucky, Lucky Me.

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My dear brother Taylor…..that was so long ago……..

January 5, 2018

I thought enough time had passed that I could address his death.  53 years later I cried like a baby as I started to write this. My older brother Taylor was born in 1954 with Cystic Fibrosis.  In 1964 life expectancy for a CF child was 10 years old.  October 4, 1964, my brother passed. … More My dear brother Taylor…..that was so long ago……..

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The gift of letters

January 2, 2016

  This letter was sort of late in being delivered to me.….some 52 years late to be precise.  And maybe because of that it means so much more to me now than it probably would of when I was six. I have written in my blog before that my mother has been going through things and in … More The gift of letters

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Hated being a model……………..

December 8, 2015

It’s hard to appreciate things as a child that as an adult you will treasure. I have often said that in the Delabano household, we had family paintings like a lot of people have family photographs around the house.  My father the painter  primarily painted paintings of our family, extended family, friends, as well as … More Hated being a model……………..

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Family Portrait: 1963

July 31, 2015

This piece has been on view at the Dallas Museum of Art for some time and I have visited it quiet often.  I keep expecting to show up and finding it gone…….back into storage.   Just like in my last blog where I posted a video that Texas A&M’s J. Wayne Stark Galleries produced about … More Family Portrait: 1963

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Delabano Art Work

The Decoys, the Pickpocket and the Mark, 2014 Crayon and resin on board 40x32"
The Decoys, the Pickpocket and the Mark, 2014 Crayon and resin on board 40×32″
Behind, 2015 Collaged paper 8.5x7.5"
Behind, 2015 Collaged paper 8.5×7.5″
Armada, 2014 Crayon and resin on board 16x21.75"
Armada, 2014 Crayon and resin on board 16×21.75″
Where the meandering thread joins the greater notion, 2014-15 Crayon and resin on board 40x30"
Where the meandering thread joins the greater notion, 2014-15 Crayon and resin on board 40×30″
Where the river meets the sky, 2015 Epoxy over styrofoam and paint 18x24x86"
Where the river meets the sky, 2015 Epoxy over styrofoam and paint 18x24x86″

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