It's All About the Dog
This is a detail of a scene of spectators watching a 4th of July parade in my wife's home town as we rode on a float for her high school reunion. After spending some years documenting my experience of my inner child I began to look outward for scenes of children and families in the societal world that resonated with me. Witnessing this parade provided me some compelling scenes of children and their families and in this case just interesting people and their dogs in this new context. I feel that pets sometimes are expressions of the inner child or a least a mirror of the innocence and vitality of the inner child energy in me the observer. This painting along with the others in this category are celebrations of that energy in all of us.