This piece was one of my earliest works. Painting can be a very painful experience due to the degenerating discs in my spine. This is how much love, effort, and determination went into this piece. Like my other pieces, as I pour the paint onto the canvas, something beautiful starts to happen. It is so great when a negative can be turned into a positive! This occurs every time I paint. I begin with pain and finish with a painTING! As the design starts to appear, the pain begins to DISappear! I am SO grateful for that! I realize now that one main reason that I love to paint so much is the fact that painting acts as a pain reliever... for me anyway.