The Offering

Original Painting. Acrylic on Canvas. Measures 36" x 36" x 1.5" (91.5cm x 91.5cm x 3.8cm). This piece is based on the poem below, about celebrating all of who we are - not just the "good" parts. I am letting mySelf Get carried away In all the ways A good girl Like me Shouldn’t In conversations Full of ideas and thoughts Too long when so many chores are waiting In the soft skin of my body Stretching and being moved By what I don’t know Posing for hours So maybe one day I can stretch A little more In letting my lover Wake me up in the Middle Of the night Sacrificing sensible sleep For pure pleasure In painting Pieces too big To ever sell or make sense But instead Only serve as my Offering to all I was trying to hide In taking naked pictures Not by the tens But by the thousands Making photos for No good reason But pushing Boundaries In walking the same Exact route Every morning Thinking about Nothing And loosing my Car Wasting time Trying to remember In inviting people I’m not yet Experie