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Karen Chávez, right, her sister, Dawn, and niece Phoebe appearance their adulation of attributes with a airing through the woods.(Photo: Courtesy of Wendy Newman)
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Best 25 Wendy house ideas on Pinterest | Girls playhouse, Painted ... | Wooden Wendy House IdeasASHEVILLE - On a arctic September morning, I told my 10-year-old niece we were activity on an adventure.
“Where?”
“To a fairyland.”
She promptly pulled a tutu over her jeans and off the three of us went, my niece, Phoebe; my sister, Dawn; and I to a South Asheville hideaway, bottomward a clay alley to a abode on a hill, its abounding windows all sparkly in the morning sun, overlooking a backwoods concealed from accustomed view.
A behemothic board beat fabricated for three acclaim blew from a massive oak, whose leaves let the sunlight through in aerial slivers.
In short, a fairyland.
Our hostess was Wendy Newman, who appears with a glamorous, affable smile, cottony red hair, beeline instead of curly, (but actual abundant like Glinda the Acceptable Witch from the Wizard of Oz), and a long-lens camera that she credibility and shoots, her abracadabra wand.
The freeholder of Wendy Newman Designs, she is an artist, photographer, and appearance artist extraordinaire, who creates, in accession to her photographs, abounding pieces of art, cottony scarves and dresses aggressive by attributes and Asheville’s iconic buildings.
She is so attainable and unassuming, you wouldn’t apperceive her art draws huge bids about the world. She has a developed babe and son, and a affection big abundant for anybody in her presence.
Her adulation of all things art and appealing and absolute lighting, has an affecting side. Surrounded in her activity by cancer, she capital to advance adorableness to advice affluence blight affliction and formed “Wendy's Cancer Warriors.”
For the accomplished six years, she has photographed accouchement with blight to accord families article to admire afterwards their accouchement are lost. And women who accept absent their breasts and their hair, replaced with fears of anytime actuality women, or anytime activity acceptable again.
One day Wendy alleged me, referred by a alternate friend. She is so abounding of account and action and urgency, she speaks absolutely quickly. “I appetite to photograph you,” she said.
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Wendy House | Wendy Houses | Pinterest | Wendy house and House | Wooden Wendy House IdeasThe photos would be aloof for me, she said. I didn’t anytime accept to appearance them to anyone.
Because she knew I had been through breast blight hell and she capital to advice me feel like myself again.
Tammy Gregg, left, was photographed by Wendy Newman, right, afterwards convalescent from breast cancer. (Photo: Courtesy of Wendy Newman)
Wendy abominably has a lot of acquaintance with the calamity blight can wreak. Alike for those who survive, it can abrade self-confidence.
She grew up in Florida, one of six siblings. Added than 30 ancestors associates accept had melanoma, she said.
Her ancestor died at age 56 of melanoma of the blood. One sister died of argot cancer, one of colon cancer. She has been affiliated 31 years to her husband, Steve, who has had leukemia for 18 years.
“I’ve been about a lot of cancer. I don’t apperceive anybody in this aeon that doesn’t apperceive somebody who has had cancer,” Wendy said.
According to the American Blight Society, women accept a 1 in 3 adventitious of developing some anatomy of blight in their lifetimes, men a 1 in 2 chance.
Not continued afterwards she started her “Cancer Warriors,” Newman herself was diagnosed with melanoma and went through assorted surgeries to abolish the blight from her face. She said it took a lot emotionally to antithesis from the scars.
“We’re all absolutely beautiful. I’m an boilerplate being who abstruse how to accomplish myself and others attending appealing with a camera. But I try to attending above the adorableness and absolutely acquisition someone’s spirit. I anticipate that’s my specialty, capturing that spirit.”
An Asheville acquaintance of Wendy’s, Tammy Gregg, went through anaplasty and radiation to amusement her breast blight several years ago. As she healed, Newman asked to photograph her.
In analytic out that spirit, Newman sniffed out Gregg’s adulation of music and guitar.
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66 best Wendy house ideas images on Pinterest | Playhouse ideas ... | Wooden Wendy House Ideas“The photos fabricated me feel empowered, and beautiful,” said Gregg, who did not lose her beard from chemotherapy, but baldheaded her arch in account of her sister-in-law who was diagnosed with Stage 3 lymphoma.
“Wendy sets you at affluence and makes you feel like you’re the best important being in the room. I accumulate the photos to myself and accumulate them as a admired allowance abutting to my heart,” Gregg said.
I acquainted the aforementioned way in Wendy’s presence. I brought my sister and my niece, two of the best appropriate bodies in my life, and abnormally throughout my blight nightmare. Wendy could faculty how abundant we all admired the outdoors and had us antic – yes, antic – in a acreage of aerial grasses.
Karen Chávez, right, with her sister, Dawn, and niece Phoebe booty allotment in Wendy Newman's "Wendy's Blight Warriors" project. (Photo: Courtesy of Wendy Newman)
She afresh asked us to airing through the forest, antithesis on a collapsed log and sit calm in that big swing.
With anniversary bang she fabricated us feel like models. “Oh that’s gorgeous! Oh that’s perfect! I’m so aflame about these photos!”
Her effusive encouragement, her effervescence, absolutely fabricated me appetite to frolic. And afterwards a while, it chock-full appearing silly. Instead, it was a baby berry of self-recognition again.
I did lose my hair, my eyebrows and eyelashes, and every atom of self-esteem while aggressive breast cancer. Not alone did I not feel pretty, I couldn't attending in the mirror and absurd I afraid baby children.
It didn’t advice that addition already said to me, with my face aggrandized from steroids and my baldheaded arch captivated in a bandana, “You don’t attending as appealing as you acclimated to.”
Wendy asleep those feelings, her absolute abracadabra not aloof in her camera.
It’s in allowance women who accept been to hell see ourselves through a altered lens, through our own lens. Her affection and affinity and acumen helps us to adios others’ notions of what appealing agency and how we should feel, abandon society’s benevolence or alienation or ignorance.
To advance out of our abundance area back we’ve been acclimated to hiding, and skip through the dupe to advice us to acquisition some atom of our absent lives, and to acquisition our own pretty.
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66 best Wendy house ideas images on Pinterest | Playhouse ideas ... | Wooden Wendy House IdeasI don't apperceive if I feel like a warrior, but I'm accustomed to be allotment of Wendy's club.
Her clandestine photo shoots are not inexpensive, but she donates her “Cancer Warrior” shoots for free. And she wants to advance the word. She wants to shoot added blight warriors and invites added photographers to accompany her.
“So generally we feel so atrocious to do something, and sometimes you can’t,” Wendy said. “But with pictures, this is article I can do to accomplish a difference. It’s tiny, but I anticipate it does accomplish a difference.”
I was confused by Wendy's photos. At aboriginal they didn’t attending like me. My beard isn’t the beard I acclimated to have. My face is different. Everything, really, is different. But I could see a little of me in there afterwards a actual continued road.
My niece was the aboriginal being to acquaint me I looked appealing back I was bald. She generally helps me to see a new activity through her little bogie (and generally devilish) eyes.
Wendy alike attempt a photo aloof of Phoebe. And added bogie wings.
Want some Wendy magic?
Visit www.wendynewmandesigns.com, http://wendynewmanphoto.com or Wendy’s Blight Warriours on Facebook
This is the assessment of Citizen-Times outdoors biographer Karen Chávez. Email KChavez@Citizen-Times.com, chase @KarenChavezACT.
Wendy Newman photographs bodies convalescent from cancer, and their accompany and ancestors . (Photo: Courtesy Karen Chávez)
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