Showcasing john kennedy Life as Art

I've spent the last 25 years painting and drawing in a style of art that is often called representative. Over the course of this last year, I've started working in abstraction, sometimes just visually; but more and more I am working to document my work with texts. Not random quotes or pithy sayings I've found on the internet, but rather my own thoughts, fears, dreams, and feelings that I've wrestled with these past 3 + years since I've experienced loss. 

I think good art informs the viewer of the artist, and I was not always getting that with my representational art. I'll still create representational art, but I hope you find my new work more interesting, thoughtful, and informative. 

Someone once noted that I have a "dark side" and that is true. Years ago, I would have covered it over with a mask, perhaps pretending to be what the world wanted me to be. Pretending to be what I was not. I don't do that anymore. I have much joy and love in my life, but there is also some sadness and melancholy. The only thing I can promise is that when you see in me either, it is the real me. No masks. 

I'll try to do the same in my art.