"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, that is genius....I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the door post, Whim. I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation." - Emerson, Self-Reliance


Mary Mikel Stump
Whim
[2002]
old window, paint, prismacolor pencil, candle, found objects