Soulful Child in Cat Costume! reverse glass painting With a load of personality

With a load of personality and terrific from every view

The black "boat" at the center is annotated with Port and Starboard (missing the first few letters)

did a series of drawings late in life of floating forms composed of faces in profile

to the black painted details and string rein pulled taut on either side

every time I see a few of them together

Soulful Child in Cat Costume! reverse glass painting With a load of personalityThis one makes me want to both laugh and cry every time I look at it, and feels to me as if it ought to inspire a novel or a play or at least a poem about childhood and fantasy and confronting the existential void! The texture of the wall upon which this cat costumed child rests their hand so contemplatively to my eye is especially right, as is the flop of the left ear and the white bow at the end of the tail. Kind of amazing. The photograph, which I