Bruised
Oil on panel
36" x 36"
2001
My mother died in 1999. To help myself cope, using money she left me, I realized a life-long dream by buying my first horse, a 6-mo. old foal I named Rabbit. I didn't know what I was doing, couldn't control him, got injured repeatedly, etc. In this image, I'm recuperating from a massive "playful" kick to my thigh. I loved that Rabbit gave me a concrete, physical symbol of my emotional state - thus the inside/outside visual dichotomy.