“Among People”

Collage, marker and pencil on Japanese tissue paper mounted on cardboard.

Painting from the series “The Sheltering Sky” based on the books by Paul Bowles.

This series of paintings are designed and created as comfortable rooms for the senses through the lines of his writings.

You will find yourself among people. There is no help for this nor should you want it otherwise. The passages where no one waits are dark and hard to navigate. The wet walls touch your shoulders on each side. When the trees were there I cared that they were there. And now they are gone, does it matter? The passages where no one waits go on and give no promise of an end. You will find yourself among people, Faces, clothing, teeth and hair and words, and many words When there was life, I said that life was wrong. What do I say now? You understand?

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