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She Used to Be Mine

"She Used to be Mine," 24" x 36" x 1", acrylics on gallery wrap canvas with image painted around the sides. $1899 plus s&h, but you have to ask nicely as this one will be tough for me to part with. I accept personal checks, paypal, venmo and payment plans.

I started out with the miniature horse as a self portrait, Young Kim, and the pansies represented my desire to own a horse (in Victorian times pansies meant "thought"). Then a Sara Bareilles song came on, She Used to Be Mine, a song I associate with The Princess because of a gut-wrenching dance she once performed to it. I put the song on repeat to mentally replay that memory, and as the song cycled, the lyrics took on new meaning. They evolved from mourning who the singer used to be, to singing about a child grown and off into the world.

So there is a paradox to this painting, at least for me. It is Young Kim, full of dreams and as yet un-materialized magic. It is also Present Kim who's still got a good amount of magic left (or is that just pink gas?!) and carries memories of dear souls in her heart. And it's also Soon to be Empty Nest Kim who is rooted and in full bloom and watching her children be beautiful humans on their own.

I would love to know what YOU see in this painting - what story does she tell you?

Thanks for following along with my art journey, Kim
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