"Whirlwind of the Soul"

A piece filled with strong emotions and a healthy dose of madness. It is an image that has been stuck with me for many years, and at long last it finally came upon the canvas. I have been plagued by intrusive thoughts for a very long time, one of those recurring ones is cutting off or removing one of my fingers - usually the ring finger. There was a time I suppose in my period of heartbreak and nihilism where I felt as if I would never find love, that I was unworthy of it in fact. Marriage was never a dream or a goal for me, and so I thought how apt to be married to nothing - bound to the void by a ring of air draped around no bone. These thoughts rarely occur to me now, and since I got that image out on the painting it seemed to have relieved me of its possessive qualities; it left my body to reside in the paint instead.