7/14/99

   This is the Haunted Portrait.  No model was used was used for it and the painting hung on the wall for a while before it reminded me of a long-haired blond guy from Danbury.  I used to visit the area a few times a year and the next time I was in town I mentioned the resemblance to a few of his friends.  Their jaws dropped, the guy had died within a week of the portrait.  I hadn’t known him well enough to know that he had Hodgkin’s Disease and I had no idea how he got into the painting.

  The confirmation of the Haunted Portrait(it takes two miracles) occurred the next year at my Woodstock show.  When I opened up the gallery one night I discovered that the Haunted Portrait had moved about ten feet from where it had been hanging on the wall to where I found it lying on the floor.  The paintings are too heavy to fly or glide, if they slip off their tacks, they fall straight down.  Neither the landlord or her relatives appeared likely suspects.  Perhaps a previous tenant might still have a key.  There appeared to be no possible satisfactory explanation, it was a complete mystery.  Of course, if there were any painting in the gallery that could move itself, it must be the Haunted Painting.

9/24/99

   After a hiatus of two years, I returned to the abstracts.  My Woodstock show was coming up and I wanted to turn out as much inventory as possible.  Abstracts are the easiest to make or the hardest to mess up, depending upon your point of view.  12/8/99 is my favorite, everything seems to flow just right.