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Museum of Paint

Why should I feel ashamed of the past?

Do I need to erase it

As if it were a splash of paint on a blank canvas ?

 

But the past was a different piece of art.

Less refined .

I have been trained since then. I draw now in detail and beauty.

 

My work then was not the work of now.

This is a new canvas that I am proud of.

But tomorrow or the day after or next year

I will have again , improved.

So should I then throw this work away ?

How then will I see how far I have come ?

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Nov 9, 2010
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