This painting has a very special place in my heart. It was the only painting my beautiful wife Lisa ever posed for. And she did it just before going in for surgery for breast cancer.

The idea for the painting originally was to invoke an emotion, which springs from the loss of beauty or innocence — a final end to an epic image that spurred countless ages worth of fantasies and mythologies. However, it took on a more literal life as Lisa went through the stages of cancer. But beauty is eternal and her battle has made her stronger and more passionate about life and helped me see the enduring truth of mythology and that it can be kept alive and flourish no matter what may come.

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