This painting was created in 2018 in Asheville, NC with black walnut ink and hand embroidery on cotton fabric.

Dimensions: 55” x 55”

This painting is of my friend Kris. The title comes from a quote by the brilliant sociologist and teacher, Martha Beck. “The way back to my real environment, the place where my soul was meant to exist, doesn’t lie through any set of codes I will ever find outside of myself. I have to look inward. I have to jettison every sorrow, every terror, every misconception, every lie that stands between my conscious mind and what I know in my heart to be true. Instead of clutching around me all the trappings of a ‘good’ person, a ‘successful’ person, or even a ‘righteous’ person, I have to be exactly what I am, and take the horrible chance that I may be rejected for it. I can’t get home by cloaking myself in the armor of any system, social, political, or religious. I have to strip off all that comforting armor and go on naked.’ - Martha Beck.

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