Although, I don’t want to make people cry, there were people who were actually crying at the art show in Washington, DC at the end of April, because if people relate to the message I’m trying to say or they just see the look in the person’s eye in my "Women In Red Dresses" series, they see the passion. They see the vibrancy. They see the energy, and they have their own emotional response to what it is that I’m saying in the paintings. A lot of the visitors to these shows are people my age, and they’re going through a time of great challenge, going through a very emotional time in their life. You know, everywhere I go, it’s either somebody dealing with losing a job or changing a career, with losing a loved one or losing relationships. And I think the important thing is they don’t want to lose themselves in these situations, but rather, they want to reinvent themselves from a very practical point of view. I never realized how much my paintings could really speak to people.
The best thing of all is to be able to embrace the moment, because we can’t know the future. We already know the past, but we live in the moment. In the moment we can actually do the best we can with our abilities and that’s how I feel I am right now. Passion is really at the center of all the projects I do whether as an artist,designing my home collection or writing my book, "Making Yourself at Home," or the documentary that I showed in Washington, DC to Congress very soon called “Running Dry” about the world’s water crisis, something I’m really very involved with and have been working on for a couple of years. More about that to come.
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