Saturday, May 21, 2016
I only just now have found this obit, but would like to extend my deepest condolences to Alissa's family. Alissa and my mother were friends for many years, and I fondly recall Alissa visiting our home in Massachusetts with her daughter Luin, as well as other visits when I was younger. Alissa was an amazingly talented photographer, and had taken many pictures of my brothers and me that truly captured our natures! She had a deeply intuitive sense of people, nature, textures, colors... and she was adept at capturing them through the camera's lens as easily as she did with paint, ink, and other art media.
One of my mom's prized possessions was a watercolor that Alissa had painted of a country road in Westchester County, NY, where my mother worked as a school psychologist in Chappaqua. When my mother passed away in 2012 (at age 91... she and Alissa were born the same year), the painting became mine. Now it is my treasured possession, along with a book of photos Alissa had composed of my brothers and me, printed and bound with a spiral binding on photo board, and presented to my mom.
Alissa was a true artist, facile in many mediums. I am happy to learn that she lived to a very ripe age, enjoyed her life, travels, children and grandchildren, and remained creative and productive throughout her life. May her memory always be a blessing to her family, friends and all others who knew and cared about her.
