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This is an Art Print reproduced from my original Acrylic Painting titled "Inside the Life of 'Tammy" inspired by a poem by L.L. Biggar on the Spark 11 Collaboration Project. For more information and to get inspired feel free to visit the "Get Sparked" project live website: getsparked.org/.

'Tammy', Inspiration poem by L.L. Biggar

"My cousin and I would

make smores and tell

ghost stories in our tent,

drifting off to sleep with

the ground as our mattress,

river singing its sweet lullabye.

Tammy was shy, but

I finally talked her into

skinny dipping one night,

while our fathers drank

beer on the cliff above,

calling out to us now and

then to be careful, to watch

the current, but it was the dark

shadows under water we feared,

the bodies of fast moving carp,

scales slick against our skin.

Fifteen years later, when she was

dying of cancer, it was the river

that gave her solace, where she

said she had no worries, no

cares, where every night was

a dream of being pulled off

a rock, of being swept into

a roar of life, that never would

have been hers married to

a man with a port-o-potty

business and living in a trailer

with a dog and three kids."

This card is about universal existence, just as it is about existing as one in the world and feeling empowered to spread one's wings and fly, in that making a difference to the whole.

This is a handmade print of my original acrylic painting printed in color using a Lexmark P6350 Printer on Kodak Photograph Matte Paper measuring 9x13cm in size. The print has then been cut and mounted onto an A6 (10.5 x 14.8cm) acid free recycled card blank front. The card comes with a matching A6 acid free recycled envelope. The card is blank inside. The card is individually signed at the back.

Shipped in a re-usable board backed sturdy mail envelope.