Hand To Mouth, 42" x 24", oil on paper, 1986. Artist's collection.

This painting began as an intuitive work but my anthropomorphic reading of some of the forms began to concretize as I was working and the final image has allusions to literal imagery. On the right there is an elongated "African mask" head attached to suggestions of a shoulder, chest, and at lower left, a hand. My favorite form in this painting is the bright white form on the left which visually jumps to the forefront of the composition and unsettles the natural predominance of the literal references of the composition.