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Kings River, California

Is it cool that I said all that? Is it chill that you’re in my head? ‘Cause I know that it’s delicate. @taylorswift

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“Pappa’s Little Man and Mamma’s Baby”

This is a painting that I did for a group gallery exhibit last October. Everyone visited a historic cemetery in town and we created art based on something we experienced there.

I was really taken with a gravesite marked with a life-like marble statue of a young boy with the inscription, “Papa’s Little Man and Mamma’s Baby”. As a mother, the monument moved me enough to look into his story. A young boy was buried there, and his parent, who did not survive him much longer, were buried on either side of him. The father was not in the military, so I am guessing that the boy is wearing the WW1 uniform because he must have liked to play soldier like boys often do….