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install image with cat and girl
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install image with candy and siblings
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install image with glove and anonymous young woman
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install image with married couple and turkey
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install image of Forever with married couple
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install image of Mary and her lover's eye
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She Held Her Dreams Carefully and Quietly
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Candy's Dandy
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Her Lover's Eye
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Her Wit
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His Whip
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Turning the Tables
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One Day I'll Have a Cat and a Lover
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My Love Lain to Rest with the Weight of the World
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The Bells Toll For Thee and Thou; The Lark's Bells
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The Bells Toll For Thee and Thou; I am the Lily and You are My Nightingale
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Namesakes
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100 Years Until and Since (Rip Van Winkle's Pillow)
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They Adored Each Other
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You Are Getting Close(r)
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There are Riches Beyond the Sea
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Now, and Soon and Somehow Forever
For Inhabiting Folk Portraits, I was invited as the 2018 Guest Artist at Fruitlands Museum to make inspired companion paintings for a selection of their American folk portrait collection. The Curator, Shana Dumont Garr gave me a prompt to consider what the subjects were thinking about or looking at. Through acquired historical research, site visits, and using my imagination, I created 10 pairings. My paintings were inspired by the painting tradition and style of folk portraits but included references to contemporary life and art. Each pairing contains a co-dependent narrative and auto-biographical musings.