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Winter, Spring and Summer 1983, The Time of Illness
All paintings are watercolor and gouache, 22 x 30 in.

 


The Arch of Life and the Grass of Blood
December 31, 1982


 

Paintings from Winter, Spring and Summer, 1983

 


Untitled a
January 1, 1983

 

 


Untitled b
January 1, 1983

 

 


Untitled d "Spiraling Upward"
January 1, 1983

 

 


Untitled e "An art to think by"
January 1, 1983

From one ear of good corn
Undated, early 1983

 

 


Answered prayer
Undated 1983

 


Love's knot of everything
Undated 1983

 

 


I searched for the mountain
Undated 1983

 


Psyche hides truths too terrible...
Undated 1983

 

 


Because I am an artist
Undated 1983

 


This is the reconstruction
Undated 1983

 

 


It was my plan to destroy
Undated 1983

 

 


 

When painting is a diary and the diarist is in a time of crisis,
the diarist makes many, many more pages than at other times.
There were at least a hundred of these paintings made in the winter, spring and summer of 1983
But this is enough for now.

Click here for fall and winter 1983 paintings from
The Time of Death.

 


World Wife
July 21-August 17, 1983