1990 24x30

1990 24x30I can still smell the stale cigarettes so strong its like a taste in my mouth. The butts in a heavy clear crystal circle ashtray, filled to the top. I had a high ponytail on the side of my head, crimped. I dreamed of being Madonna, spinning in circles in my driveway in the dark singing out loud to my favorite song, Like a Prayer. My mom wore shoulder pads and had a perm. They had a huge stacked stereo system, one where the volume lit up in green

with my own white horse

Or good at something

listening to that way of speaking for the first time from someone else

The love of travel

These days freedom is the feeling of catching a wave and not being afraid

Hyat had a way of treating her students like they were a part of that world

This painting is like Silver Lake met up with that sunflower and all of those midwest storm clouds and became one whole picture - all the while keeping the movement and texture of time kept and time passed within her being

This painting is for you

I know that your choosing and use of colors for your new home has been of the utmost importance to you

48x60 Las Vegas

I’ll probably read it to Kevin later

It is within that wisdom that throughout this life you will understand and relate to the ocean