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I have to Explain Try to explain an artist when everyone else think he’s insane well, try to explain him when YOU have the knowledge and THEY now a fraction of what you do Christ, I think about artists I’ve known who created, who never told me what they meant Why did you do that painting? Why did you die before explaining what you really meant for it? It’s a dancing woman, I have to explain to them, you see, there’s her shoulder, and her hip, and the thish and arm moving across the canvas I have to explain this to them and the thing is, that woman is me that dancing woman is me     the woman in motion     the woman that never stops and he finished that painting the day before he died and what does it get me what does this knowledge get me what does anything get me I’m still without a painting     that was of me, for me and no one still understands Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.