Maudie 36x48 The next day

The next day

teaching myself to write for 20 years

he just seemed to have them a little bit more than I did

a talent at only looking at the imperfection coupled with master hallucination skills to back up whatever pain the separation I’m creating is bringing up

for the rest of this life and after forget that moment

Maudie 36x48 The next dayFor ten years Id stay up all night, lost in the paint. I worked in an upscale steakhouse in Las Vegas appearances were important. Every afternoon around 2 Id start trying to scrub all of the paint off of my hands and out of my nails. At work Id laugh and ask my boss if he had any idea how awful it was to be deep in a creative process, only to go to great lengths to get all of the paint off of my hands, scrubbing them raw to look presentable, so I