”Social Masque”. 11 x 15” / Oil Pastels, Watercolor on Acid-Free Strathmore watercolor paper 
 
“Who are you, really?” everyone asks you with their eyes as they walk up to you…and maybe as they walk away.       Only you know, or do you?       What face we wear as we speak to friends and aquaintences isn’t the same face we wear when we’re out on the street, at a job, shopping or voting.         Who do you want people to think you are?        Who is it hiding out underneathe that plastered-on smile, that stern, no-nonsense business-as-usual look of benign authority?       Do YOU know?       Are you REALLY successfully hiding what you think needs to remain private about you, the human, if that is what you are?!       Does confidence in who you are come from believing in that~ or in believing you have fooled everyone?        Or does that magnificently sculpted look of confidence shine so brightly simply because you just don’t really care one way or the other WHAT people think about you!       
       How a work of art touches you can be as important as a confidential conversation with a good friend.
       This original work of art is not for everyone, but for the discerning collector who can see through social masques because they know who they are.