COLOSSAL ROLLER COASTER RIDE is part of a series of paintings with the theme of Roller Coasters. Roller coasters are a metaphor for life's ups, downs and arounds. At the time I created this series, life presented me with some very big challenges. It was important to express this experience through painting and share what I was feeling through the image of the roller coaster ride. As with the actual roller coaster, this experience on life's roller coaster ride was scary, exhilarating, hopeful, heart pounding, anxiety ridden, and felt larger than life itself. On a broader scale, with today's uncertainties of illness, climate change, and political unrest, it certainly feels like being on a Colossal Roller Coaster Ride.
