Judy Gall’s Accidental Masterpiece

In 2002, Mark Gall sent me photographs of the Rosamond Gallery taken by his sister, Judy Gall, when she was down in the Monterey area. I saw the hidden beauty in this montage, this many layered vision into the Rose of the World gallery that shows Rosamond as Sleeping Beauty, the silenced Story Teller surrounded by her court.

The first chapter of my novel ‘Capturing Beauty’ will begin, thus;

“Once upon a time a beautiful young woman who had just turned sixteen, came to Carmel to behold the artwork of her late aunt she never knew. She and her mother had been invited to the reopening of the Rosamond Gallery after they responded to a call for those who knew Rosamond, to contribute to the biography in the works. Even though this beautiful young woman never met Christine Rosamond, her brother was her father, whom she never met as well…