Response to WHITE TRASH show

I wanted to share how lovely it is to receive an email with a personal response to my last show. So here it is

'...But the exhibition is in a realm way above and beyond my expectations.

Your artist statement says it all far better than I could ever find the language for...'

Janet B.

That is why I do what I do for people to get touched by the work as I do when I think it

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