Monday, March 9, 2009
This is Bojangles, I won an award for this piece as well. Money, in fact, a nice fat check, which is always exciting. It's a handmade paper pulp painting made with stencils and screens. There is a series of these, like the masks, you'll see a number of them; they were all done a few months after 9/11 when I couldn't bring myself to pick up a brush because I was too traumatized. I'd just finished one of the bright yellow angels on September 9th, and the next painting, started the following week and a grey figure edged in red against deep blue, was simply too reminiscent of what I saw from the street outside my house that horrible morning.
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I cannot imagine what you went through at that time, although the day is etched in my mind.
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