Original artwork description:

This is an abstract original painting on a solid wood panel measuring 11 x14.
It's ready to hang, how cool is that?
The sides are painted too!

The inspiration was my partner. He has a frontal lobe injury he sustained as a passenger in a car accident. Emotions, impulse control, and short-term memory all are functions of the frontal lobe.
Brain injuries are cruel, you don't know you're perceiving the world differently, you just are. There are days I say things to him and he gets whatever I am saying totally wrong from what the intended meaning was. Then he gets Krakatoa-level mad at me.
One day I had a discussion of some current event with a few people and I tried to tell my partner about what was talked about - he went bananas in some other direction entirely and wound up angry at me about it!
Mostly it's not a big deal living day to day with his brain injury but man, there are moments. This was one of them.

Materials used:

acrylic paint, varnish

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