I decided to put away my mixed media painting for now and work on a different type of painting.  It’s a style that our gallery director liked and told me to reproduce for my final art show.

I originally started the series during my painting course last fall as an experimentation with watercolors.   this winter I decided to add layers in acrylic and came up with pretty cool externalized version of my “inner conflicts” when thinking of my experience with cancer.

To me cancer was a name for the pain and the chemo was a way to take away the pain.  Yes, I realize now how close I was to death, but it never felt like that at the time.    For me I came up with this saying that describes the paintings exactly, whether it came from somewhere idk, but I consider it my own.

“Don’t forget the past, but don’t let it haunt the future.”