Images of the forest, whacking through it branch and root, Green Mansions.
My mother didn’t read the book to me, but it figured heavily in her girlhood imagination, subsequently the bedtime stories she made up. Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest (1904) is an exotic romance by William Henry Hudson about a traveller to the Guyana jungle of southeastern Venezuela and his encounter with a forest-dwelling girl named Rima.
My father’s brief, disastrous first marriage was to the brunette model depicted in Howard Chandler Christie’s mural for the Café des Artistes. I hadn’t seen it until…
terra-cotta, wax & oil paint
15.5 x 21 x 9 inches
