self portrait, with 25 Hotrod (2015) Significant to me personally is that this is the first image my wife ever saw of me before we met.

MARK 2015 - 58" x 36"

multimedia: graphics & acrylic on paper & canvas.
Courtesy of the CLOUD COLLECTION

Twenty four years after I graduated from Cornish, I sought out Greg Skinner, the head of the Art Department. He had been responsible for admitting me into college way back in '87, after taking a Summer Class. He was struggling with muscular dystrophy and house-bound in a wild setting outside Port Townsend Washington. I drove up and spent a couple of afternoons just catching up on two and half decades. As I was leaving he said I have something for you. A big old brush.
Then it came out that it was one of Mark Tobey's brushes. (!)

---I thought I could never paint with this brush, because its Mark Tobey's.

...then I thought I HAVE to paint with this brush, because its Mark Tobey's.

And then I thought of a 3rd option: I paint the brush itself, because its Mark Tobey's.

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