On the Road with Jack (1991)

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Painting: Oil on Canvas.

Painted: 1991

Size: 35” x 48”

Owner: Personal Collection

Music Selection: “The Long Way Home” by Super Tramp

I painted this canvas after reading Jack Kerouac’s book “On the Road.” As I was growing up, my family moved all over the country. It was difficult making the adjustments to three different schools in one year, but I got to experience different regions of our country. What I discovered from that experience was that most people are accepting and friendly. We are similar yet what is acceptable in one part of this country was totally alien in another. I met people that had never been more than a hundred miles from where they were born.