Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954 a Mexican painter known for her surrealist or magical self-portraits and artifacts of popular culture, she employed folk style. Part of Mexicayotl movement defining a Mexican identity. German father mestizo mother lived in her family…
Modern Dance 1894 – 1991 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, father was known as an “alienist”, strict Presbyterians. Third-generation American of Irish descent. Graham’s mother, from a comfortable life, was not one that encouraged dancing. An American modern dancer and choreographer, whose style,…
In Side Cover Image needed for another painting again search box find the inside cover and there they are. Another smoking cigarette moustache. Seems to be popular with writers of a certain time. Do not recall the title of the…
Death in Don Mills A book had never read by author Hugh Garner who did not know. Was there when searching for someone to paint. No convenient computer images relying on paper that laid around your home. So a…
Red Velvet Spread your velvet wide, capturing the air as you propel down from your depression. Unable to soar to Great Heights. But will simply plummet with great beauty. To the final resting place on the concrete ground that surrounded your…
The Pool The light glint on walls around you. When the sun reflects upon the water dominates the room more than the water itself. There is an ozone change to the air with so much water in a closed space.…
Traitor To survive, maybe you compromised, or you were young and fell in love with a handsome young man. This man had power unlike all the others in town, but in the end he conquered your country and you. But…
Dree Hemingway What’s a legacy, a shadow of greatness, comes before you and covers your body for all your life. Trying to distinguish yourself from the past of someone else. But she’s striving forward as if a genetic need to…
Bent Face Everything twisted, following different directions from each other. Confusing the proper shape of things causes discomfort. Pulling in our attention for confusion requires effort. Through distortion of reality, the mind engages to make straight for our own acceptance.…
Nativity The big day has come, they all stand around and awe, the child has arrived. They have followed the stars to this one place. Part of a prophecy of the believers. Participating in a continuation of a myth.…
