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thank you...for being able to hear past what you might have perceived as negative to offer me a positive ...i used the work because you did actually capture me...and you captured me in a way that i've rarely been able to see myself...but in a way where i could never deny that who i'm seeing is me...so in response to your comment of my wanting it "both ways"...yes, i am a guilty of that... because, i'm a human being...and i'm just torn between loving the idea of someone capturing me and the feeling of being captured with no access...at the end of the day...it's hard to know that this is out there away from me... instead of... with me...the one thing you always feel like you have control of is your identity...but then if i'd had control of "self" the way i wished it...you would never have been able to paint a piece of me that all my friends and community gravitate to so powerfully...it is simply a double edged sword...as so much of life is...i know that your painting is a message/gift from the universe...one that i'm working to decipher still...but one that i'm extremely glad for...it feels like the "powers that be" commissioned this work on my behalf...because i would never have known how to have asked for this...and i think that's why it's so perfect...
thanking you again, for allowing me to use your interpretation of me as a representation of myself as an artist, you will be credited accordingly
afrakaren
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