This image was my first post on social media as Wonky Star Studios shortly after the 2021 New Year. It’s a self-portrait painted on men's briefs. It is old, but it manages to accurately represent my feelings about the transition from 2020 to 2021.
The work was created during a dry period when I had a great deal of personal, financial, and family stress. I knew there was light somewhere in my future, which is represented by the bright window element. I presented myself in an outline, a shell of myself. It is a self-portrait; a theme that can’t help but come up in almost every painter’s body of work. Almost 20 years later I will create another version of the same image called “I KNOW” reflecting a different form of personal angst. The effort to express myself in both works was successful in releasing the negatively I was experiencing at the time because when I view the works now, I feel mostly relief, with a small dose of humor.