Very beautiful tribute to her!

Lovely tribute Tara well done!

Wonderful tribute!!

Layer upon layer. Symbol upon symbol. Everything says Mina. A fine tribute to an old friend of yours. All of your Photoshop skills coming together in one place. Really well done!

Wow, Mina's is clapping in heaven as she sees this. Like bmac says, this is so Mina with its depth of layering and symbology.

This is just beautiful!

Full of beauty and symbols and so much feeling. This is truly a wonderful piece of work and a beautiful way to honor your friend.

Tara what a wonderful tribute to Mina. So many details and it all in Minas spirit. She would just love it.

I didn't know her at all but this is lovely work Tara!

A masterpiece, and a lovely tribute. I should like to have watched the making of this!

A nice tribute to Mina!

a light just became brighter above....she will be so missed down here Good job Tara on the dedi'

bel hommage!!

Wonderful tribute!

gorgeous work and a lovely tribute

super work for a super lady

Perfect creation and remembrance!

A fine tribute.... A beautiful creation.. Rob

A beautiful tribute. Thank you.

Really nice picture and tribute! Great job!

A very profound tribute. Clive

she gone and will miss her. cool work

A beautiful and moving tribute, Tara! Most excellent! I didn't know Mina, but after visiting her gallery, I am sorry I never got the opportunity. I would have truly enjoyed knowing her. May her memory live on.

so sweet, Tara May I sure miss Mina wonderful warm colors think in many thoughts warm hugs, Linda Kaye

Tara, whenever I see you do work like this, it makes me want to see more & more & more; and it's so fitting since Mina was one of your first friends here & she encouraged you in so many ways. First on the piece, which Mina would have danced over: When you make montages of your photography & painting & abstracts, you unfold a world of inner revelations, and you do it with as ease as if it were merely a matter of taking a snapshot of your soul. You're utterly at home with this, which Mina would've been delighted at. And I know it didn't happen fast, I know how much you walk with these things before you complete them & they emerge full. But it's natural enough as if it came out in a blink of the eye... And for Mina, you created a quiet montage of so many things that were in her, and with a touch & caress that is wholly in you: Egyptian symbols, pagan symbols, wiccan symbols (which come from the pagan world originally), and symbols of sight, insight & light, all of which were so dear to Mina. And you gave us two mysterious animal eyes, as Mina deeply loved animals, put them in her art, and truly believed we could understand them at the deepest levels. And you dispersed the symbols around the painting like thoughts, they're so subtly done...Then you have the flower: What you do to photographs in your montages just knocks me out. I've seen this kind of painting from you before: It's a flower of memory and dreams, it's perfect; and it fades into the air like pure thought & energy. (It's just wonderful, and exactly the kind of flower that befits the passing of beloved soul...it's a flower of flesh and spirit all at once.) And you gave us three goddess-like figures underneath Mina (in the orb), almost in postures of supplication, and they're white like ghosts, almost like long-maned animals. And a raptor bird, flying high---again one of Mina's loves (remembering that the raptor, a bird of prey, also symbolized the act, in all of us, of tearing off the veils to reveal our inner selves) ('raptor' comes from the same root as rapt and rapture, and what could be more Mina-like?). And the orb of light, which was one of her trademarks, with her beautiful shining face in the center). And then, something so you and yet I don't know how to describe it: Watercolor-like brush work woven into the piece, maybe actual symbols; but they're beautiful spills and shapes, and again like Mina because she had mysterious shapes all over her work (along with the plants & vines which you also pay homage to here). And an overall feeling of peeking into a deep chamber, a private place which is deeply you and all about Mina at the same time. A meeting of two artists...From you, it's one of your touching inner paintings; and for Mina, it's almost as if we were seeing a gift that was only intended for her, but which you kindly let us all see. It's intimate, mysterious, mutliple-layered, and above all filled with love. A beautiful tribute for a beautiful soul. Silent & very moving.

A wonderful and very touching tribute to a dear lady.

What an incredible tribute! I'm sure Mina loves this (yes, present tense!) as her vibrant love of everything was quite infectious. I first "met" her, at least online, while living in Prague, and was immediately in love with all that she did. While I lived in Dortmund, she kept things interesting with sitemails, emails, and witty little literary jokes which always helped my mood. And above all, there was her art: so richly textured, so full of life, both overt and hidden. And yeah, what's not to like about someone associated with Nekhbet--heck, even someone who pronounced her name right! How cool is that!? Especially since Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics never managed to capture fixed vowel sounds (you kinda had to know how the language sounded in order to know where to put the right vowels. But anyway, I digress!) I love this image and the complex interweaving of everything that is Mina: the raptor goddess, the more European-derived nods to veiled and mysterious histories, the subtle grace, and even a quality of beauty that I consistently associate with the music of Loreena McKennitt (Not surprising, more stuff that Mina loves--yes, still present tense!) This is marvelous work, quite touching, and it's a great way to encourage the rest of us to remember a great, fun, deliciously lively friend. Yeah, she had a wacky streak too: and that was always refreshing. Great work.

Beautiful work and I had no idea. A wonderful tribute to a lovely person.

I didn't know Mina...but what a super tribute...very nice

Gorgeous tribute Tara.