Self Portrait as a Dead Tree with Laura's Ghost in the Field of Diamonds

Acrylic on canvas

36" x 48", 2006

After Laura died I felt as though I had also died. I did not want to do anything. Laura came to me in dreams, beautiful and vigorous. She walked in a field of diamonds. In my dream I could not talk to her. I was a dead tree, aware that all the riches in the world could not bring her back