For twelve years I lived in the woods of New Hampshire and Vermont reworking one hundred paintings. Each was a portrait painted from memory. I placed each canvas on my easel one after another, painting it over and over. When I was nine I moved to Ghana. After visiting 23 countries in the following four years I had a storehouse of images, but had forgotten my home. In 1984 I threw most of those paintings away, and moved to Boston. I synthesized my past into daydreams by combining isolated memories of foreign lands with fantasy narratives. I received my MFA in painting in 1991. |
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