Mhegoriah of the Dhuriiehm.

As some of you may know, this image has quite a story behind it. In February 2008, it was stolen from the painting studio of my college along with several other student works. I was devastated, to say the least. I’d poured months of work into it. The incident wrecked my creative drive for about half a year.

Inexplicably, it turned up in a side stairwell of the art building about five weeks after it was stolen with some superficial damage but otherwise intact. I’m still baffled about it—at first I thought the thief had a change of heart, but not hours later the same day, a large finished painting by one of my friends went missing. That still has not resurfaced. What the hell.

In any case, as thrilled as I was to get it back I couldn’t bring myself to look at it for months. It sat in my closet the whole summer, and once I went back to school it was difficult to find time to work on it. Finally, in January, I was able to finish it. So here she is.


Acylics on canvas, 24"x30".