"Trust Mounted"

I had a friend that was really good friends with a bunch of wealthy older ladies. They would all get dressed up and lunch. One of them died, and all of the other ladies glorified how her body was discovered - she was wearing her best pajamas and her nicest diamonds and pearls. All of them wanted to be remembered that way, and they all prayed for the same death their friend had had.

I am learning that the only one you can truly count on is yourself. I always thought of getting stabbed in the back and mounted while I was going through this. Puting her name "Trust" under her neck shows the death of an ideal that you seem to lose as you get older.

But she is bedecked with jewels, a better way to be remembered than being a patsy and sucker.

Watercolor, graphite, paper

original - 5 1/2" x 8 1/2"
$95 USD