1st thought:

I am a self taught artist--" it seems I trust myself as more proficient instructor and task master than those titled at the Art Universities I tried to attend & always "in-unrolled! it could also have been a matter of finance- I had none for College-

2nd thought

"Translating emotion into images is fuel for my enlightenment. "My gift" specialty "is the interpretation of emotional context into pictures- i.e. images- much as a poet ,each line represents a given power, condensed vocabulary to increase power of meaning- i.e. : nuance exploration of the feminine physic and her relationship to the universe and beyond, that journey brought me to the Goddess- "White Tara" -reaching into the dusty caverns of time -crossing thousands of years in a moment- communicating with the artist-now dead -continuing the pulse of Buddhist compassion- wow-and my journey continues as i explore those boundaries of Society which need to be crossed- as in the barbed wire fences- of my youth in gnarly wild, blossoming pastures bound in forbidding fences , yet I see there is a way to get under the barbs without being grabbed - the metaphors -for : social correctness i.e.: power of conformity to social morality of the day and rt past- but slip under those fences I did- and still do ,