Seventeen 24x30 Papa told me Roi was

Papa told me Roi was roman catholic

She taught me the world wasn’t just something to disassociate from in order to defend myself

I wanted to be her

a personality

And when did the courage of that action turn my guts into the illumination of power as a result of walking through fear

Seventeen 24x30 Papa told me Roi was24x30 acrylic canvas glitter epoxy art resin coated. Ready to hang. I thought I was in love when I was seventeen but I was really just in love with thinking what it might feel like if somebody thought I was worthy of their attention. The particular somebody was a specific person that now, all these years later when I think back to the day I met him every single detail of that instant is still sharply in tact. It was that nightmare of a relationship