Simone
For the many, many friends and associates who feel the struggle continue...
From the Collection of Colin Frank
Gregory Porter and Laura Mvula - Buy yourself some tunes, Love!
Did you lose a couple friends along the way?
Are You Kidding Me?
11x14 in ~ Painting, Ink ~ Paper
2011
$200
Might be time then. Might be time now.
acrylic on canvas
$1730
I honestly believe something greater is as stake than to just live here, and to work here and to love.
From the Collection of the Honourable Yola Grant
Did you fight for your position? Win, and then still lose?
I Hope For Strength - From the Collection of the Honourable Yola Grant
Sometimes it happens.
acrylic on canvas
8x10 in
$120
The path we choose has no guarantee of blissful perfection at it’s end.
A Day at the "Beach" (es) 2015
I tried everything.
acrylic on canvas
12x12in
$225
You tried too?
acrylic on canvas
12x12in
$225
Let’s hang out then.
Let’s have brunch.
Discuss the subtle, strange acceptance of the lie you challenged... again.
Ya Think?
acrylic on canvas
24x30in
$1440
You have pride in yourself.
The Walk from the collection of Paul Rapati
mixed media
11x14in
$400
You believe that you are worthy of amazing things
because you worked hard,
and you’re good,
and you were born deserving them…
I am Love - Fiction - Simone Frank $4.95
You’re right!
You deserve the best!
ink on paper
2011
$200
You haven't received the best yet?
Maybe you should change.
ink on paper
2011
$200
Not likely.
A Black One from the collection of Diavin Miller
Change can be good.
Regent Park and Tearing Down - 2015
Sand Under My Feet - 2015
I tried that too.
ink on mulberry
5.25x8in
2014
$20
I tried to be normal from 2004 to 2006.
I lost the imagined love of my life, my passion and my drive.
Normal people, don’t hurt this much, I decided.
So I tried to join the masses.
How hilarious was that?
Calmed some others and bored myself.
Not one of mine, but gorgeous, isn't it? - still searching for the photographer...
my version of normal...
I moved into a condo in Mississauga. I worked at a shoe store in the mall
with a lovely bunch of ladies who were married or dating
and had no desire whatsoever to exhibit at the Guggenheim.
I shopped at the Gap. I drank instant coffee.
I watched daytime talk shows and night time dramas.
I rode the stationary bike in the condo gym
instead of the fold up bike Igor the angry bicycle salesman probably stole.
mixed media
8x10in (framed size)
$95
I went to Church with my Mom.
I fell asleep in the pew. I snored there.
Nothing against Church. I just found it so relaxingly calm.
She told me I was embarrassing her. I apologized.
We laughed a bit.
We laughed about a lot of things.
2013
24x36 in
From the collection of Father Saul
Lilium Casa Blanca is missing in action.
(I have to hunt it down. A store closed as a result of Bloor Street West reconstruction).
acrylic on canvas
2013
$120
I knew who I was before I got there.
