From young to old Hamlet

….as an analogy: if my presence was the universe....then being a painter is the sun around which planets revolve....drawn into orbit these planets would be clowns...poets...novelists....actors.... all the other guises that I would have wanted to be...had not painting dominated my existence....

…..still...since I have always wanted to be a shakespearean actor.... I do so through my shakespeare series of paintings.... in which, I play all the roles.....either through self-portraits or by creating the presence of a character through my brush...

….in “Hamlet's Father's Ghost”.....I not only appear as hamlet (me as a young man) but also as his father (me now)...

…..interesting, young Donald no longer exists....and although I am distantly linked to him by aging flesh....this Donald only exists on canvas now.....