Acrylic on paper, ready to hang.
Signed certificate of authenticity.
Painted in 90 minutes, while listening to Secret Garden, from Madonna’s Erotica album. As if the tempo isn’t hypnotic enough, I had the track playing on loop for the entire hour and a half. This is something I do when I’m feeling a bit wound up.. it gets me into a meditative frame of mind. Some of my best works have come about this way.
“A petal that isn't torn
A heart that will not harden
A place that I can be born
It's in my secret garden
A rose without a thorn
A lover without scorn
Somewhere in fountain blue
Lies my secret garden”
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Verse from Secret Garden
Songwriters: Andre Levan Betts / Madonna