Back in 1993, I was part of an exhibit held at the Grand Marais Art Colony entitled “Proud Flesh: Healing the Scars of Family Violence.” The two pieces I submitted were “Mind and Body I: A Childhood Gone Up in Flames” and “Mind and Body II: The Chill of Lonliness”. They are oil pastel on watercolor paper. In my next blog entry, I will show the initial compressed charcoal sketch on newsprint that led to these finished pieces. Of course everything I do has a story to go along with it, but in this case, I’ll be happy to share if you ask, but with these pieces in particular, I had to come to terms with the fact that they would hang in the gallery without me there to interpret them. So I figure on some level, these speak for themselves, at least in a general way. Perhaps they will strike a common chord in you?