"All Ties Severed Clean" ©2003, 16"x20" acrylic on canvasboard
Well, the title says it all. It's the perfect New Year's celebratory painting for me, cutting all the ties that dragged me down along the dry desert dirt in 2014 from this year onward. I know not everything will allow itself to be cut away (like my sister's death, I'll bear that burden until my OWN death...), but so many drastic and GOOD changes - if things go fairly closely to what's been planned - are on the horizon. December, even though it's the month I was born in, always seems like the small hours of a dark, dark night. New Year's Day is the sunrise after that oppressive dawn. I'm looking forward to this year! I hope it's the same for you all as well. Onward and upward, all ties severed clean.
