"The Heart of It" acrylic on canvas, 5"x6", 2003, EAU
Found this old photo of this work in my painting studio from another lifetime, so long ago. Wondered, where is it, this magnificent canvas? O, yeah, Katrina.
I lost 20 YEARS of work - so much work - in those rotten levee break floods & I have NEVER "recovered", much less painted like this again. It killed something in me. What a tragedy! I'm a terrific painter. Just never had the stomach for it, the mechanical ability to do it all again. Goddammit.
People love to judge from the outside of trauma but you motherfkkrs do NOT understand. & you should spend your time actually trying to learn how, cuz not understanding THIS (& all it entails) is criminal.