Virtue is like a rich stone, plain set: and surely virtue is best in a body that is comely, and of delicate features, and that hath rather dignity of presence than beauty of aspect.

–of EMPIRE

Francis Bacon,

Happy birthday to my a dear friend and sister Sylvia O. You are a powerful visual artist whom I have been fortunate to see you grow and develop into the  ferocious talent and candor of a human being which you are. Cheers to a multitude of eons and health in our overlong “Picasso/Matisse” lifelong conversations and deconstructions.