This was a collaboration with four emmy award winning writer Garin Wolf and my model was amazing oil painter and friend Greg Little. AIDSHELP of Key West has an art auction every year and this years theme was "Out of the Box" so I asked my artists friends to work with me on it and this was the result. Wolf's poem is below for the piece and is in relief in the painting.
…and in the hoary morning it dawns like the white stained radiance of a ready towel. that life remains a fight, and the blows that box my ears to the truth (all tied up in a riot of red ribbons) remind me that the rounds of love and longing ring the triangle i really stand in; stay anchored. stay aware. stay alive...