Breakthroughs Don't Come Easy!

And that's exactly what this painting is about, breakthroughs. I did this in 2004 during a deep, dark, clinical depression that lasted most of the year. I was trying to get free of it, it wasn't working. Eventually I did! And this is how it felt...gray, dark, like the line in a U2 song ("Until The End Of The World") - "I was drowning in sorrows, but my sorrows - they learned to swim..." My own sorrows were pulling me down, my demons came for me. Still, I got free. It took a long time and I've had to do it again and again. Breakthroughs don't come easy. But they do come! You have to fight for it.