Last night I worked on framing and veiling my painting of the tomato flower for submission to “The Square Foot Show” by Artscape in Concord MA at the Fowler library. I’m experiencing some trepidation, will they accept it? Will my work be understood? If it is hung in the library will anyone see it? Will someone wonder, why is she covering her work? 
I’m realizing that as I put my art “out there” the interpretation ultimately becomes personal to the beholder regardless of my own intentions.  This is something to accept on my part:

 

 “your opinion of my art is none of my business”

 

Building out the veiled flowers, this painting is drying and awaiting varnish before being veiled. The yellow flower is from a tomato plant in my backyard, in real life it was only as big as the end of my thumb, but enlarged I am hoping to capture the potential energy and nourishment that it will provide.