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[riotheclown]

<td> tree/wind in my daughter's collection

I am, and have always been a tree hugger.  When I am super stressed I go to a nearby old growth forest and breath in the generousity and patience of the trees. 

I painted this during a difficult time and blurted out, "This is my self portrait!" and realized I get the portraiture of landscape.  We have been around a lot longer than cameras and for generations we had no reliable reflections of ourselves except in the faces of our family and in the landscape.

(We still have no better reflections.  We can look in a mirror or at photographs but we pick and chose specfics and ignore or try to change what we do not like. We can even go so far as to mutilate our face in an effort to look more like what we imagine ourselves to look like, younger, more pleasant and perhaps more beautifu but the truest reflections of ourselves are in faces of the people who care for us, and in the environment where we live. I think that is why vampires and zombies appeal and repell in horror films.  Deep down we know they are the truest representations of ourselves in the world these days.)
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