
The World Is Yours — acrylic and mixed media on canvas.
This work carries the residue of an influence received, metabolized, and answered. Then every hand in the household marked it. It is not a print, not an edition, and not for sale. It is a Permanent Archive Work: the object that closes Cycle I and stays with the family that made it.
What is inherited cannot be purchased. That is what makes it an inheritance.
Across the top of this painting runs a band of dots and dashes. It is Morse code. It reads:
THE WORLD IS YOURS.
The painting does not depict a transmission. It is one.
Eight movements. Six of them opened as gates, one at a time, over three months. Two of them — the first and the last — were made to close the circle.
Assembled, they answer the question the title asks. They heard. Here is what they heard.
Play it in order the first time. The sequence is the argument.