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Thursday, July 13, 2006
The Big "C" Doesn't Stand For Creativity

The road on St. Kitts is a reminder that life is a journey, not a destination.

La vita e bene, I keep telling myself as my mantra as I go through the radiation treatments daily at the hospital. While there I stare for less than fifiteen minutes at the large moving machine which has become like an appendage to my daily summer routine,
and then I sigh and pretend to visualize that I have returned to a warm Sicilian
beach and I am soaking in
those kind of rays rather than the ones of reality.
This touch of immortality
is a bit of a hiccup, that's
all, I tell myself as another treatment ceases.
Meanwhile, I am successful
in my attempts to become more of a risk-taker in my
introduction to the art world. Mixed messages bring back the personalities of my
childhood:
I feel like a student right out
of art school: vulnerable and somewhat naive, yet hopeful. Hope has become the
second mantra. I can smile
because I have been diagnosed with a disease in its infancy. My "c"is non-life threatening.I am supposed to
feel a greater sense of comfort with those words.
When I think of painting I am reminded of those Dutch
Baroque and Baconesque slabs
of meat which always bothered me for some reason.
My work is so different from
that. I continue to seek the
colors. They seem to have
become more muted in my inner struggle. I seek the soul and solace as I return
to my painting. I say words of gratitude for being able to use the talent given me by the Higher Power who is watching over me.

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