Size: 21.5'' x 15.5''

Price: $2,000

Image Notes: My Mother died with Alzheimer's Disease in 1985. One never gets over the loss of a Mother, and perhaps this drawing was my way of dealing with it and the implications that I may be a candidate for the same disease.

Here is the text that is written around the edge of the drawing, proceeding clockwise from the right edge and chronologically in her life:

Mother had to quit school after the eighth grade and go to work to help support her brothers and sisters.

Her Father kicked her and her scrub bucket across the kitchen floor when he came home drunk.

Mother was always beautiful.

She taught me to love color when I was very small.

Mother loved to go window shipping in Beverly Hills.

She made the dress Dinah Shore wore on her TV show.

Mother made root beer floats for my friends and me when it was hot.

She didn't think she was smart enough to meet my professors, but they were charmed.

She knew that my Father was dead 15 minutes before it happened.

The first sign of Mother's Alzheimer's disease was when she couldn't find the cookies she said she had baked.

In one moment of lucidity, she said, "I've lost me."

Shows and Awards:
"In Other Words," at the Second City Council Gallery, Long Beach, California; Pat Morrison, juror; August 2002

Second place, San Diego County Fair fine art exhibition, 2002

"Explore This," Colored Pencil Society of America international juried exhibition; West Bend Art Museum, West Bend, Wisconsin; 2001

San Diego Art Institute juried regional exhibition, April 2002

"Good Vibrations," Colored Pencil Society of America, San Diego chapter; Grand Galeria, Escondido, California; 2001