back A sailing vessel, marked on the
back 1960, 7th painting... don't remember what other paintings... oh
there was one of a candle, something out of Disney only poorly drawn.
Obviously I knew little about color, straight outta the tube, maybe a little white.
The interior scene I didn't remember doing until Barbara Nevela, my
step aunt, returned it to me as she entered a terminal illness. It's
from 1962, my senior year in High School. Bad as it is it does depict a
memory, me lying on the floor seeing an old man in a rocking chair and his dog before the
fireplace... the not unpleasant smell of two elderly people living in a
wood-fire heated cabin all winter. For some reason I made the man
younger, no rocking chair. The woman was always in the kitchen. They were grandparents of
friends of my Father's.
