Escape





Oil, watercolor, and collage on wood with plastic/fabric sunflowers.
1997

This isn't the absolute best shot of this piece, but it's all I've got right now. Sometimes I work in a very slow odd way... I sometimes will start a painting and only paint the background. Then I won't touch it for days, weeks, even months. Then it will hit me... I know exactly what to do with it. And in those brief, fleeting moments... sometimes I actually capture what it is that I thought was the gist of what I came up with at that moment. I think this is one of those rare, successful moments, although anything I don't physically destroy or paint over ... well must've reached some standard or passing point in my eyes, even if I know it's maybe not done yet or perfect. This one took me a really long time to finish, but once I knew what it was that I wanted to do, it all just magically happened. This is like a dreamworld/refuge from the bad days, the sad things, a magical place that keeps you safe from everything you don't want to /can't bear to deal with in your life. The girl in the picture kind of looks a little bit like my friend Julie. It's kind of appropriate, since she has helped me through some tough times. It wasn't intentional, it just kind of happened that way. back to gallery

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