TRIXIE'S DINETTE

2003

acrylic, glass, wood filler, and aluminum leaf on wood
7.5"H x 24"W

-this is my favorite of many portraits of my uncle, scott sherrill




photographed by tim barnwell






"....there's a walt whitman poem bix
loved that starts:

'It is not upon you alone the dark patches fall
The dark threw its patches down on me also
Nor is it you alone who know what it is to be
evill
I am he, too, who knows what it is to be evil
I, too, knitted the old knot of contrariety
Blabb'd, blush'd, resented, lied, stole, grudged
Had guile, lust, anger, hot wishes I dare not
speak
Was wayward, vain, greedy, shallow, malicious
The wolf, the snake, the frog not wanting in me'

can't remember the rest, but you get the idea....."


"i'm actually planning to
have my tongue surgically
removed as soon as i can find a cooperative
doctor---except i keep
forgetting that as much trouble as the words ive
spoken have gotten me into
in my life, the ones i've written down have
probably gotten me into even
more. words useless words arent really so
useless in my evil hands.


-letter excerpts from my uncle