A gift to celebrate supportive friendships among women. This piece could represent three sisters or close friends or cousins, or a mother with her two daughters–relationships that are most comfortable, and most comforting. The figures are connecting with each other in a quiet moment, attuned to each other in harmony. Using their hair as a metaphor for the healing sensation of touch, Lordi carved a poignant and personal figure from her life to represent healing, friendship and love.

Sentiment card reads: The comfort of just being together.

• 6.5"H hand-painted resin figure
• Figure of three women; one standing in cream dress, with arm around kneeling girl in cream dress, holding hand of seated girl in cream dress. (Kneeling girl is arranging hair of seated girl)
• Packaging box includes enclosure card for gift-giving
• Dust with soft cloth or soft brush. Avoid water or cleaning solvents

“I’m the fourth generation of three sisters. I remember hearing the stories of how my great-grandmother and her sisters, young Italian immigrants, would dress each other’s hair each morning—brushing, braiding, pinning it up—before they started their day working in a factory sewing pockets on men’s workpants. As I grew up, I watched my mom and her sisters care for each other in close, affectionate ways. And with my own two sisters… we often find ourselves curled up on a couch, arms, legs overlapping, where just being together is the activity. It’s a comfort level achieved by quietly talking, laughing, playing with each other’s hair, being close to each other. “It’s the comfort you feel when you’re surrounded by those you trust and love—like with your sisters, or a mother and daughters, or very close cousins, or even best friends—the ones you can literally ‘let your hair down’ with. You don’t have to fill the spaces or explain yourself. You can just be together, and that, in and of itself, is healing. “Our healing touch is all about the hair. Hair is a symbol of our identity—who we are, how we see ourselves. Our hair differentiates us, but also connects us. Isn’t the first way we ‘date’ a photograph by the hairstyle? Hair is tactile, sensuous, and the touching and stroking of it can be comforting and healing. These women are connecting with each other in a quiet moment, attuned to each other, in harmony.” –Susan Lordi