Many years ago when I found the black velvet painting among some things my dad was getting rid of, I asked if I could keep the painting. It's the tacky stuff we want to carry with us through life, isn't it? My grandpa's argyle coffee mug that he's had since I was a kid, the conch shell my great grandmother kept in her living room so that we could listen to the ocean when we visited, an ornament of a little boy in a snowsuit that my grandma had on her Christmas tree every year, and a tacky black light painting that I stared at in the darkness of my father's bedroom, which must have been a comfort to me during those infrequent and close moments with him.
Materials: aqua blue and black flat wooden bead, black wooden bead, black and teal bugle beads, black seed beads, teal E beads, rusted wire
