When we were girls black love If there is hope for

If there is hope for true democracy in this place we call America

Fearing that which is your salvation is pathological

I paint with a sense of my subject(s) story

This is spiritual—deep and abiding

This mixed media style

When we were girls black love If there is hope for46x62, oil on gallery wrapped canvas. The art experience of engagement is always a dialectic. Art interacting with the viewer. Meaning or understanding is produced in between the gaze. If not meaning or understanding, then a sensation of feeling. This engagement will be different for every viewer. This is precisely why art belongs only partially to the artist. The creation is a thing apart from the engagement with the viewer. The artist is essential