Wild + Free (West Beach) 36x48

  36x48 Acrylic, Resin Coated I always used to say that someday I would write a novel where the last paragraph is the part of my life when I drive my white mustang off into the desert listening to “Wild Horses.”  It is for this exact reason that in 2013 I got a white mustang, with the Nevada horse plate that says “Wild + Free.” That day came. I was in the middle of the open desert, sun setting perfectly. I had three years clean, somebody financed me a $30,000 car, and the scene was perfectly beyond what I could have hoped for.  But somehow, I knew I was in the scene. I guess I had always just pictured it as a feeling.  I knew at that moment that I would never have the ability to write what it really felt like. I don’t know how to balance perfection with pain. I always just wanted to be wild, until that accomplishment (in every extreme)  made me only want to be free.  My perception of freedom when I was younger was jaywalking on Belmont & Clark dressed like Cyndi Lauper, having w