A Story About A Painting
Let me tell you a little story... When I was younger and could stay awake all night, a friend and I would arrange "midnight" picnics. It was all so very poetic and gothic in our young impressionable minds. We'd go to bed as normal (as instructed by the parentals) then we would awake around 1 or 2 AM when we were sure all were asleep. We'd make cantaloupe soup, then sneak into the woods behind her house in the Lowcounttry amongst the fireflies to read poetry, dance, stare and the night sky and talk until almost sunrise. We would then sneak back into our beds and await her mother's call for Breakfast. We thought we were so very cool. Maybe we were, maybe we were not. But what I know, is our imagination was out of this world. And we believed we were fairies and the jasmine scented magic of the night was ours alone... as long as no one found us out. This little memory was the inspiration behind this painting... "We Have Been Found Out". Here are a few...