Featured Work: Hat in Hand

mixed media collage
13 x 20 inches edge to edge
​21 x 30 inches framed
Currently on exhibit at The Museum of Arts and Sciences Karshan Gallery. 
Available for purchase after November 25th. Purchase price: $650.

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​"Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us, but we can't strike them all by ourselves. We need oxygen and a candle to help. In this case, oxygen, for example, would come from the breath of the person you love; the candle would be any kind of food, music, caress, word, or sound that engenders the explosion that lights one of the matches. For a moment, we are dazzled by an intense emotion. A pleasant warmth grows within us, fading slowly as time goes by, until a new explosion comes along to revive it. Each person has to discover what would set off those explosions in order to live, since the combustion that occurs when one of them is ignited is what nourishes the soul. That fire, in short, is its food. If one doesn't find out in time what will set off these explosions, the box of matches dampens, and not a single match will ever be lighted."
                                                                                                                                                                 --Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate

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