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This is my favorite painting. It is not beautiful, but came from something I wanted to capture that I loved. I lived in a house over-looking all of Ojai. Every night I looked out over the valley and saw the lights of the street lamps and the bright stars. This was the view. How to make a painting out of that blackness and light? I just started. When I lost that house due to lack of money, I mourned it like a lost loved one. I missed this view so much. It was like God was in my living room – nature, clouds, weather, sunrises, oh the dawns i saw there! Then I had to leave. It broke my heart. But, that experience taught me what HOME is; comfort, expression, belonging. Those things can’t be lost or taken.