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What it means, why it really came about, why the images evolved the way they did, I really don’t know.

Why not speak openly. I do not have the capacity to lose my grief through tears.

To be a child again, a mixed blessing. I’ve been doing that now for 45 years, so I guess that’s the answer.

I was a child of God, a spirit sent to earth to join a body. If there is a specific message, it is this.

Once I start painting that sort of scratches everything else, and the painting becomes itself. For in these late years there are times when I should fight to receive the attention my work deserves.

from State University of Iowa. I felt the heartbeat of the salt marshes and ran with the darkness home. Broderson also taught at North Carolina State University in Raleigh from 1967 to 1968 and at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine during the summer of 1967. They cannot hurt you, for at best they may change your way of viewing things, if you are open, and at worst, send you back to the safe world you already know.

I’ve certainly looked at a lot of other painters’ work in my life, and I certainly have tried to paint paintings like other painters whose work was beautiful. The black was oil, India ink, pastel, or pen; the white was painted, left bare, or scratched off with a penknife. His stark, often distorted, figures hold strange birds and beasts and are darkly set against dramatically light skies.