Opalo 48x60

Opalo 48x60Sometimes in life you get the gift of desperation. Which, in the moment, feels like anything but a gift. But for me in 2011, the trauma was finally catching up with me. Id been in active recovery and clean for nearly two years. My body constantly felt like it was expanding. My clothes didnt fit. I lived on Marlboro lights and fountain Dr. Pepper. Everything in life was either something to get over or something to try not to feel. I was a master at

I feel old but ageless as my expression matches the listless pale of the gray winter sky

Over and over again I would meet myself

When she had to leave I cried

The sun was powerful

I will never

in shocked joy and disbelief at the message I had just received

This painting is a portrait of how only I can break through blocks that only I create

I’d joke “I’m from the flat land

playfulness

I could try to explain the exact places or memories in my life when I learned an artist's entire catalog of music word for word but words wouldn’t bring any sense to that kind of alchemy

“What the hell

34x34 Art Resin coated