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	Fanny Osteen: Man I loved making this!! I had soooo much fun with fish rocks, and silver leafing!! Totally symbolic of the great lyrics by Pearl Jam's "Black"~ I have been painting on black canvases for a long time now, and I have never fully understood why it is that I paint on black instead of some other color. I understand now what meaning that color has for me in my work. Tears I had a very black time in my life, and every since that moment, I have been struggling, and fighting for a bright and hopeful future, painting each layer on that black canvas. The thing is I have never forgotten that blackness in which all of "Everything" in my world has deloveped from. I look at my work, and I can still see the black in the background, as if it is never letting me forget the hands of time that I try so hard to cover with color. As I look back I dubbed my generation with a term I chose, not by some snub nosed politition. I call my generation the "Throw Away Children". That is what I witnessed growing up. producing bitter sweet children, against all odds. I am still that child inside this 30 something body. I decided that I did have something to "prove", something to say that mattered, even if I was the only one who heard, and believed in my own words. I am learning that all that I have done when I was a bright eyed child, was not done in vain, it did mean something, and it still means something. I have learned that our experience is "REAL", and we are just as alive now, as we where then. I always believed that understanding would com later, and it has, it arrived right on time, and has never been late. I think another page is about to turn, and I am ready. My heart is full, and my eye are bright again. Thank God. "Of what was EVERYTHING", my world turned black.... tattooed all I seen... "I know some day you'll have a beautiful life"... TEARS ~"Black" by Pearl Jam 1992-1993 The year I became a woman~ sheets of empty canvas, untouched sheets of clay were laid spread out before me as her body once did all five horizons revolved around her soul as the earth to the sun now the air i tasted and breathed has taken a turn and all i taught her was everything i know she gave me all that she wore and now my bitter hands shake beneath the clouds of what was everything? all the pictures had all been washed in black, tattooed everything... i take a walk outside, i'm surrounded by some kids at play i can feel their laughter, so why do i sear and twisted thoughts that spin round my head i'm spinning, oh, i'm spinning how quick the sun can, drop away and now my bitter hands cradle broken glass of what was everything? all the pictures had all been washed in black, tattooed everything... all the love gone bad, turned my world to black tattooed all i see, all that i am, all i'll ever be... i know someday you'll have a beautiful life, i know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky, but why why, why can't it be, why can't it be mine? Posted May 13, 2008 4:55pm
	montrove: Very nice, compliment.Best regards Montrove Posted May 16, 2008 9:09am
	Julie_Huntsinger: This is very cool!!!!! So deep, so feeling, so moving....black is ominous and you have used it well. I love this art. I love what you share!!!! Kisses creatress!!!!!! Posted May 21, 2008 7:35am
	FahadArt: Very nice, compliment. Posted Jun 4, 2008 11:07am
	Julie_Huntsinger: I think that this work lends itself to many suggestive images in it. I see many faces that seem familiar from ancient times...I think I might even see a popular image of what Jesus supposedly looked like..... I think it is a wonderful work of art that reflects back at the viewer what they need and want to see in it. Spirituality is such a subjective thing, it issues up our programmings as well as personal process and understanding. If it is the redeemer that reaches out to you from within your psyche then this is the mater you walk with now. Always honor where you are at and try to be as honest as you can with yourself. Enjoy you, enjoy the process. Posted Jul 16, 2008 11:32am

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This painting was inspired by the song "Black" by : Pearl Jam 1992 the year I became a woman.
~BLACK~
sheets of empty canvas, untouched sheets of clay were laid spread out before me as her body once did all five horizons revolved around her soul as the earth to the sun now the air i tasted and breathed has taken a turn and all i taught her was everything i know she gave me all that she wore and now my bitter hands shake beneath the clouds of what was everything? all the pictures had all been washed in black, tattooed everything... i take a walk outside, i'm surrounded by some kids at play i can feel their laughter, so why do i sear and twisted thoughts that spin round my head i'm spinning, oh, i'm spinning how quick the sun can, drop away and now my bitter hands cradle broken glass of what was everything? all the pictures had all been washed in black, tattooed everything... all the love gone bad, turned my world to black tattooed all i see, all that i am, all i'll ever be... i know someday you'll have a beautiful life, i know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky, but why why, why can't it be, why can't it be mine?