It Is What It Is!
No Matter How Hard You Try, You Can’t Shine Sh_t
59″ x 18″ x 5″
Plastic, PVC tubing, string,
2004

It Is What It Is! 
No Matter How Hard You Try, You Can’t Shine Sh_t!

Make sure you put away your stash! 
Oh yes we do. In the left corner, the daily tabbing of the tabs, prescribed or otherwise, is neatly stored. These pill boxes are probably the gift of a dutiful and doting daughter with the best of intentions, while her son similarly puts away his “stash”, her husband his “tonic”, and just as carefully. But theirs are not prescribed.
And then the thoughts – from pole to pole, between should I or should I not? Or rather, I shouldn’t, but cannot stop. The pill makes everything right. I need you! I need you not!
The ups and downs, and ups and downs, and ups and downs, can be fun for a while, but then ……….
The praying hands and the angel tell a story; the story of the cry for help, far above and beyond the medication or abuse. It is a story of ageing, of maturing, as we learn true/through reason, and learn to turn to a Higher Power that we might abide the daily dose, or turn away from obsession.

This work is a story of dependency, and the journey of overcoming, even as our dependency increases