Happiness, 30″ x 40″
A woman came into my booth at the Eureka Springs Fall Art show looking at my paintings of the girls with big eyes. She said something to me about them looking like hybrid children and asked me something like whether I had painted them of hybrid children or if they just happened to resemble them. I said, “Huh? I don’t have any idea what you’re talking about.” She said “Google it, hybrid children” and something about alien abductions.Some other people came into the booth and I got distracted and when I looked back she was gone. Alien abduction?
Anyway, I took her advice and googled it and here’s the best thing I came up with:
Question:Should I baptize my alien hybrid children? I also saw drawings of big eyed aliens inseminating women. Is it interesting to note that when I first began the Happiness painting (without a plan or end in mind), we all thought she was going to be an alien?
A little later that same day, a brilliant eleven year old friend of mine came into my booth and talked about life forms found around the vents deep in the oceans and how different it is from any other life forms we have known. She told me that she is surprised life has not been found on Mars and that she fully expects the exploration of Jupiter to lead to the discovery of life. That would be exciting news, but when would I think about that? I cannot imagine there being time enough in my life to marvel at and begin to unravel the mysterious and persistent life here on earth.
BTW, the girls have big eyes because they are observers.
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