I am here to unlock the doors to this psych ward. Welcome to the Intensive Treatment Unit where residents wander the hallways, rock in dining chairs; some sport designer outfits made of their bed linens, some stare out the window as if expecting someone. They are a danger to no one, most of the time. These dreamers have lost the ability to wake up.

They are walking lucid nightmares.Unable to wake them, I engage them whenever I can. I pretend that it is part of my job. In addition to being a painter, I am a nurse. I wear a name tag that identifies me but it is, for the most part, a bald faced lie. I collect the sights and artifacts of their world to bring home with me, smuggle them inside me.

They are now finally free, without their court ordered Thorazine shot.This piece was done in Photoshop, without the use of any photos. Using various filters and history brushes, layers rise and fall like something alive. I paint to intense music, all the while lost in a trance, not wearing my name tag.

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