#1 Naked man jerking off at Folsom Fest with onlookers (San Francisco, Ca) #2. the lesson: how you dress for your man when you are at the Olive Garden(palm Desert, Ca) #3 Protector (Johanessburg, S.A,) #4 Teddy and Juanita (father/daughter Jarappa river, Amazonia) #5 Helen and Tom and Night of the Long Knives sculpture #6 MMMMMHMMMM. so yu say (Chicago finanacial district} #7 Teddy and Betty ( neurodivergent Center, Melbourne, Australia) #8 Clandestine Lovers (Paris) #9Tibetan Sorcerors (Llasa, Tibet) #10 Bland Leading the Blind (Venice Beach, Los Angles)

I met Ms. Bell 20 years ago. She was my anger management therapist, a suggestion by both my husband and daughter after an arduous trip to Belen, Brazil in the amazin amazon. On the phone she sounded like June Cleever and Donna Reed combined. She was anything but when we met face to face. Ive been very lucky in my life to have 2 amazing shrinks, both of which became clise friends. Artists need shrinks that really "get" that unique mercurial and neurotic drive that fuels intense creativity. She was and is the genuine Fahschnizzel!! I rarely photograph her. It's difficult to capture that proverbial lightning in the a bottle. She helped me understand the highs lows and endless depression and doubt that IS being an artist. "I'm a loser and a nothing nowhere man" to. "I need to kill myself" thru to "What a beautifully gorgeous creator". What the fuck!!! What I've accomplished via Daisy is clarity, knowing the difference between reality and artist's doubt and the undulating waves of despair: Bob the drama queen indeed. I am eternally grateful for this speshul relationship. After all, there is blood family and the brilliant family one can create with the assist shamanic soul. If one is truly lucky one can have both but rare to nearly never.

BUT NOT LONELY

I'm now 77 and with this coming of wisdom with age I enjoy watching all of the subtle changes in me and in my vision. When one is lucky enough to arrive at this point, one his the beauty of looking at life from the peak of a mountain, looking both backward and forwards with crystal clarity. (Ericson)

My assistant sat down after his day off and plopped down into my pink chair. The late afternoon lighting was so arresting that I NEEDED to take this photograph