"Art Is What You Can Get Away With." -Andy Warhol

Mary Oliver (one of my favorite American contemporary poets) excerpt from The Summer Day

"Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?"

Thoughts: the harder times become, the more determined I feel to create something that transcends to another place, to create good energy and beauty in a world that desperately needs it. Art is life....life is art...have you heard that before? This is the first piece I've put cherries into, but all the symbols I use are intuitive.

The Landscape