Letter in Blue

In her most recent body of work, titled Letter In Blue, India Cruse-Griffin is inspired by her parents’ love story that began in 1951. During WWII, while Griffin’s father was serving in the U.S. Army and stationed in Germany, he wrote 47 letters to Griffin’s mother, all on blue stationery. 

The letters have been passed down in the family, and Griffin found them to be fitting inspirational sources for her work, which is being shown in February and celebrates Valentine's Day. Each of Griffin’s works feels like a contemplative vignette alluding to the letters between her parents that document their love story.

Griffin’s work is layered metaphorically and physically. She uses cut magazines that are collaged onto panels, then painted over, creating surfaces with a quality of feeling illuminated from within as images emerge. 

“It is my hope that in this thought-provoking work you will find your own peace and sense of security like my mother did when she received each letter in blue,” says Griffin. The different works in Letter In Blue evoke what coming home, love, family, and commitment to connection mean to each of us and remind us to cherish the memories we have of those closest to us.