Crystal Body, Crystal Eyes

Crystal Body, Crystal Eyes

Dennis and I are enjoying these collaborations. I create a collage. He creates text and adds it to the collage. I add pastels, watercolors, and erasure tape. ❤️

Every time I draw or paint, I can’t help but remember doing a charcoal drawing of some bell peppers for a class in college. The professor was so frustrated by what I was doing, she grabbed the charcoal out of my hand, “fixed” my drawing, and said, “See? Why can’t you do that?” The story is layered. I stuck out like a powerless blue-collar sore thumb in that class. Her son was held hostage somewhere in the Middle East.

For me, art was and still is, about revelation, not perfection. If I wanted to look at some perfect bell peppers, I’d just look at some fucking bell peppers.