Late Visitor

19-3/4" x 25-1/2" framed
(3 layers)
Acrylics and terra cotta pens on canvas

Many years after they were violently divorced, my father would come to my mother’s house for an early cup of coffee. She had forgiven him everything, even his adultery and assault.  Not yet a broken man, he sat at my mother’s kitchen table with fedora on his knee and nourished himself on her forgiveness. After all, her name, Esperanza, means Hope.

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