"guise"/2002
Acrylic on canvas, 60"x48"

"Miss Piggy"/2002
Acrylic on canvas, 30"x48"

What do you know?
What do you believe?
How do you know
If what you know
Is the truth?
What is the truth?

Symbol. Stereotype. Caricature. Real Person.
Truth. Judgment. Prejudice. Experience.
Chauvinist. Misogynist. Feminist. Humanist.
Funny. Sad. Sickening. Sympathetic.
Barbaric. Backward. Enlightened. Revolutionary.

Ask yourself what you feel.
Ask yourself what you believe.
Ask yourself what you think.
Then ask if that is the only way
You could think or feel or believe.
Ask again.
Then ask yourself --- Why?
This is what I do as I am painting.