It's Me, I'm Here.

(papier mache, acrylic paint,  21" tall)

It's good to be just plain happy; it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how, and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well, that is beyond happiness, that is bliss, and if you have any sense you ought to kill yourself on the spot and be done with it.

                                                                        Henry Miller

My Brave Face

                                                                                                      (Acrylic, repurposed wood approximately 3' x 1.5')

My Great Grandma back in Oklahoma was always commenting on someone's club foot, or their hair lip, or their deformed arm by saying, "sometimes God doesn't give with both hands."  I was nine at the time and I remember thinking, "I'm not sure I like this God guy."
                                                

   

Salesman

(Acrylic, suitcase handle, found board 14 x 16)

True newspaper headline of the week:  "Burlington Man Stabbed After Sign Language Mistaken for Gang Signs."