About the Lithograph:
Love knows no limit or time. It is enduring and immutable and is shared by young and old alike. Its focus may be a young romance, a lasting marriage, affectionate grandparents, a family pet, young children or a place called home. Love, knowing no bounds, is timeless and is what memories are made of. It is the ingredient that makes happen miracles and fond recollections. It gives one insight with depth and perception and creates light in darkness and warmth in cold. Here in our memories and experiences is love. There is no finer place than Charleston, South Carolina, to experience the love of life itself - a place where our eyes can gaze upon the historic Pineapple Gates through an imaginary window, blending the seasons of our life and displaying those things dreams are made of.
As you look at this remarkable painting, you can see the little girl, warm and secure, gazing out of the window into a cold but heavenly scene. You wonder is she or isn't she really seeing the apparition of love Madeline has suggested to you in the ghostly appearance, or is she looking for Santa Claus? Is it 1989 with the wondrous Christmas snow cover? There is that spirit of love symbolized by the guardianship of a now gone but not forgotten grandmother, whose love makes her seem so near. There is the comforting presence of parents which makes it feel like home. You can fell the warmth, love and security in the gathering of loved ones which shuts out the cold reality of the world outside and makes everything seem like a wonderland.