Green StrapsKayleigh

The whole canvas is yellow because I wanted it yellow. There is no reason beyond that and I am not going to invent one.

no reason. i wanted it yellow.

One of four canvases of the same woman, and in three of the four her mouth is open. I did not choose that either. It is simply what she does, and painting her four times is how I found out.

What do you do with it?

Inspired by a photograph of Kayleigh Swenson (@vikingbarbie). What the painting makes of it is my doing, not hers. Part of Painted Idols.

The photograph this came from was made to be forgotten. This canvas was not. It took weeks, and it will hang on a wall for years.

Ordering takes a minute. Deciding where it goes is the part that takes nerve, because everyone who walks into that room will see it and decide something about you. That is the real decision, and it is yours. The ones who own these stop noticing the reaction after about a month, and never stop noticing the painting. Hang it anyway.

There is one of this canvas and there will never be a second. If you have read this far, you are already picturing the wall.