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Calm and gentle no more. Zephyr’s Scream 24 x 22 oil on canvas. A Young Chimera 24 x 22 oil on canvas. A Young Chimera in progress. Sinking Blues (Unfinished) 8-5-2012. Detroit Institute of Arts. The Art Institute of Chicago. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Philadelphia Museum of Art. The Detroit Public Library. Calm and gentle no more. Are lost; denied,. They have no place. Blooms that do not. Dowry, she keeps. Denied, is lost. May 24, 2014. Zephyr’s Scream 24 x 22 oil on canvas. November 4, 2012.
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Rest gently over each note to reveal the chimera's song. Play each note individually to read the chimera's blues. Dancing Away 50" x 30" Oil on canvas. Shout together children . . . Don't you get weary . . . Detail — Dancing Away. Is next. . .
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Rest gently over each note to reveal the chimera's song. Play each note individually to read the chimera's blues. Underground 50" x 30" Oil on canvas. I should probably just get over it. Is next. . .
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Rest gently over each note to reveal the chimera's song. Play each note individually to read the chimera's blues. Travelers 40" x 48" Oil on canvas. Available as Giclee on canvas or paper at ChimeraDitto. Is next. . .
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Rest gently over each note to reveal the chimera's song. Play each note individually to read the chimera's blues. Note for note for note. Blue Dress 50" x 60". Girls At Dusk 50" x 62". Dancing Away 50" x 30". Underground 50" x 30". Social Studies 48" x 40". Fractured Doll 50" x 56". Family Room 18" x 24". Improbable Dreams 30" x 52". Travelers 40" x 48". The Recital 40" x 48". Hide No Seek 36" x 46".
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Rest gently over each note to reveal the chimera's song. Play each note individually to read the chimera's blues. Felicia 36" x 50" Oil on canvas. born 9.29.2010. Felicia and The Easle Move on Twitter. Picture Window Diptych: Oil on Canvas; Left Panel 40 x 22; Right Panel 46 x 38; born 11.9.2010. Picture Window in Progress. Unnamed Painting 16 x 36 oil on canvas; born late in 2007. An Old Poem, An Old Song, and An Unnamed Painting.
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Rest gently over each note to reveal the chimera's song. Play each note individually to read the chimera's blues. The chimera's song is as big. Around and alone as the blues. Warm and maybe sad it's got these rich, colorful, rhythmic parts that make you want to stay and hear more. Please stay and enjoy the chimera's song for as long as you are so inclined. In fact, go ahead and mark it so you can find your way back. I'll try to keep it going. Seriously though, I do have the blues.
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Rest gently over each note to reveal the chimera's song. Play each note individually to read the chimera's blues. Fractured Doll 50" x 56" Oil on canvas. Available as Giclee on canvas or paper at ChimeraDitto. I am nothing special. My home is broken. I can never go back. My parents were both black when the only people that mattered were white. They were not special in any other way except — they could sing and play and they were clearly bad for each other. I guess a bad start precedes a rotten finish.
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Rest gently over each note to reveal the chimera's song. Play each note individually to read the chimera's blues. Girls At Dusk 50" x 62" Oil on canvas. Available as Giclee on canvas or paper at ChimeraDitto. When I grow up I will be seen. I will dress as I please. My hair, my eyes, my skin, my shape will be my own. I will not have to wear someone else's cast-off, wrong-fitted and stretched. I will be ill-at ease. I won't be ashamed. People will know I am my self. Detail — Girls At Dusk.
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Rest gently over each note to reveal the chimera's song. Play each note individually to read the chimera's blues. Detail — Girls at Dusk. The paintings are rich, bright tales full of symbols. Every child lives in two places at once. There is the world the family creates. Then there is the one the child must inhabit when parents are not around. Represented here are alternative realities. Instead, for some, there is an expensive loss of freedom. And potential. Masks. Everywhere life goes on. Power...