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First on the sexes’ intermix’d connexion,
One sacred Right of Woman is protection.
The tender flower that lifts its head, elate,
Helpless, must fall before the blasts of fate,
Sunk on the earth, defac’d its lovely form,
Unless your shelter ward th’ impending storm.
From the poem Rights of Woman by Robert Burns
Subtitled “An Occasional Address. Spoken by Miss Fontenelle
on her benefit night, November 26, 1792”

It is astonishing to me that Robert Burns wrote of the rights of women in 1792! Twenty Six years earlier the American founding fathers were crafting words to protect the rights of men but they never saw fit to even give women a vote. Yet, here was Burns in so early a day as to be thought of as one of the first feminists.

This picture is in the Missouri Ozarks, near Branson. I was on a high ridge and could see this storm moving in. I found it to be an extremely dramatic pictorial story even though the picture is almost featureless...

William Fields, Artist Two Soaring Hearts, LLC www.william-fields.artistwebsites.com P.O. Box 293 Hermann, MO 65041 phone: 573.486.5252 or 314.578.5767 http://www.williamfieldsartphoto.com/develop/ Art is my passion. I try to put everything I have learned from every great teacher and through every mistake I have made into each and every piece with as much passion as I have for art and for life itself. Artists have been accused of being self aggrandizing, long winded, name droppers. I hate it when the critics get it right! In an attempt to diffuse those kinds of accusations, regardless of how accurate they may be, I am writing this statement today. Each picture I make begins with a germ of an idea. I visualize how I...