8/23/26 figures in doorway II, 38x36” oil on portrait linen
12:27 PM:in yesterday’s version, the grey dominated and was really, you might say, the subject. this morning, after a good sleep last night, i was in the space where i could receive gorky’s message. i’ve been studying him lately and increasingly feeling a connection. my grandparents came to this country at the turn of the century, and no one is certain where they came from; could have been armenia. but that’s irrelevant. what matters is that, in looking at his work, i feel a connection; he awakens something deep in my soul.