
Midway through this painting, however, I received a photo of Vivian out of the water and I started to pull some of the distortions back. And then I received another in which half of VIvian's face was outside of the water. Normally no part of my images emerges from their amniotic wateriness, but I want to think that this image is different. We shall see. I have gone perhaps too far into description, but I sort of have a plan to build a bridge between the two worlds...