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Tough Day
Another sleepless night.
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18x24"
Graphite, colored pencil, and gouache.
Agony
I like a look of agony,
Because I know it’s true;
Men do not sham convulsion,
Nor simulate a throe.
The eyes glaze once, and that is death.
Impossible to feign
The beads upon the forehead
By homely anguish strung.
Emily Dickinson (1830–86)
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18x24"
Graphite, ink, collage, and gouache.
Blasphemy
Does the pious man who sins still go to heaven?
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9x12"
Graphite, gouache, and ink.
Saudade
sau·da·de
/sou'däde/
"a feeling of longing, melancholy, or nostalgia."
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18x24"
Graphite, charcoal, and colored pencil.