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I grabbed a piece of charcoal and quickly sketched a stick figure in the middle: a circle, a vertical line, 4 diagonal lines, two dots, and 4 semi-circles. I didn’t like the distance between my hands and the canvas, but habit made me reach for a tiny brush. Something inside stopped me. In a rush, I reached for the black paint tube. I couldn’t get it out fast enough. I grabbed an old jar of black close by and peeled off the layer of skin that had formed on top. The sensation of the wet sticky film on my fingers comforted me. I dragged the skin and my wet fingers across the canvas towards the lines in the middle. The black violated all the intentional charcoal lines in the center. The perfect circle melted away, but my body still hurt. Red. I rubbed red across the center line between the curves and dragged outward. Four minutes in total passed. My first self-portrait was finished. I left the tar and red on my fingers and stared at my painting. Thinking and not thinking at the same time. My friend called, and we cried together and sat silently together. Both talking and not talking. Motionless staring, my husband, my best friend, walking into my space, and I handed him my phone and said, “Take a picture. I don’t care how you do it. I want and don’t want to remember this.” He took one picture and quietly left the room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68068470e811d5318a26ec97/6e8c22fa-9224-495a-b3b9-3eac1c0b70d3/Day+4+The+Scream.JPG projects - American Woman - Jesus, Maya and Edvard, 2024, oil on canvas Middle of the night, “Red, and yellow, black and white, they are precious in his sight,” sang through my mind. A familiar song from childhood that should have brought me peace, it did not. Okay, try something else, Maya Angelou. Recite one of her poems, and maybe you can go back to sleep. Nope. Edvard Munch? No, don’t think of his work, not now…I just want to sleep! Fine! I’ll get up and go to work. Maya, Edvard, and Jesus. 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