Meaningful/Meaningless

(Acrylic, oil stick on canvas, 24"x36")

                    "I've always known what I've wanted, and most people don't." Georgia O'Keefe 

On Crenshaw Boulevard (on the other side of the tracks -- the tracks being the 10 freeway) there's a bookstore called Dawah which, besides lots of Muslim literature, sells incense and essential oils for aroma therapy.

They have hundreds of plastic gallon jugs with names like "Sudden Joy",  "Night Moves" and "Hope Eternal".  They also have many with historical and pop culture names like "Kobe", "Tupac" and "Marcus Garvey".    The salesman's joke was that they don't sell a lot of "Obama Time" because it's too vanilla.

I went home with  a small bottle of "Spearmint morning."  I wanted to like "Sudden Joy" but it came on too strong.