Secret
       
     
Baby
       
     
Shy
       
     
Rest
       
     
Rest
       
     
Hate
       
     
Sensitivity
       
     
Drinking
       
     
Adventure
       
     
Sleep
       
     
Career
       
     
Dream
       
     
Affair
       
     
Secret
       
     
Secret

Date: 1995
Medium: oil on linen, text panel
Dimensions: 61 X 53.3 cm
The Art Gallery of Ontario

There isn’t much
I can do about it.
I really don’t care
anyway. I just hope
no one finds out.

Baby
       
     
Baby

Date: 1995
Medium: oil on linen, text panel
Dimensions: 61 X 53.3 cm
The Art Gallery of Ontario

I am very happy.
I have the baby I’ve been
wishing for. Peter and I both
have jobs and enough money
for everything we need.

Shy
       
     
Shy

Date: 1995
Medium: oil on linen, text panel
Dimensions: 61 X 53.3 cm
The Art Gallery of Ontario

I’m shy but people think
I’m stuck up. They think I think
I’m superior. I always summarize a very
profound thought, making it into a
platitude, or say something stupid like,
“That’s the way the cookie crumbles."

Rest
       
     
Rest

Date: 1995
Medium: oil on linen, text panel
Dimensions: 61 X 53.3 cm
The Art Gallery of Ontario

I like to sit under a tree
and watch the clouds
sail over me. In the scheme
of things on high,
I am but a little fly.

Rest
       
     
Rest

Detail from Rest

Hate
       
     
Hate

Date: 1995
Medium: oil on linen, text panel
Dimensions: 61 X 53.3 cm
The Art Gallery of Ontario

I have immense hatred for Donna.
It is festering like a boil.
I want justice.
I will never forgive her.

Sensitivity
       
     
Sensitivity

Date: 1995
Medium: oil on linen, text panel
Dimensions: 61 X 53.3 cm
The Art Gallery of Ontario

I own a pearl necklace.
I like cats, expensive perfume, and
flouncy floral fabrics. I have had a
wide variety of sexual experiences.

Drinking
       
     
Drinking

Date: 1995
Medium: oil on linen, text panel
Dimensions: 61 X 53.3 cm
The Art Gallery of Ontario

I know if he finds the dishwasher carton full of empty bottles, he’ll know about my drinking problem. So I keep the basement door locked. “It’s too messy to go down there,” I say.

Adventure
       
     
Adventure

Date: 1995
Medium: oil on linen, text panel
Dimensions: 61 X 53.3 cm
The Art Gallery of Ontario

We are in danger. There are strange obstacles in the road. We will use cunning strategies to get us through. We will be better for it in the end.

Sleep
       
     
Sleep

Date: 1995
Medium: oil on linen, text panel
Dimensions: 61 X 53.3 cm
The Art Gallery of Ontario

When I am sleeping, I am always beautiful.

Career
       
     
Career

Date: 1995
Medium: oil on linen, text panel
Dimensions: 61 X 53.3 cm
The Art Gallery of Ontario

My art career has started to take off. They want my work in different places all over the world. It is being written about in important magazines. My dealer calls me at least twice a week.

Dream
       
     
Dream

Date: 1995
Medium: oil on linen, text panel
Dimensions: 61 X 53.3 cm
The Art Gallery of Ontario

It is all below. Snow covered rooftops, chimneys puffing with smoke, white moonlit hills, and trees glistening with snow lumps.

Affair
       
     
Affair

Date: 1995
Medium: oil on linen, text panel
Dimensions: 61 X 53.3 cm
The Art Gallery of Ontario

We meet on Wednesdays for lunch, go to his apartment after. I stay till 4, then go to pick up the baby at daycare. No one knows.