The architecture of the building was particularly impressive. Some of Ms. O'Keeffe's works were quite good. Thing is, I realized that a lot of her work was so innovative in approach that the more naive works added to her oeuvre rather than detracted from it.
So, today I painted one of my very own daturas from a photo I took last year while they were in bloom. Melinda Esparza: Datura in the Night of Yearning-Lost to the Darkness Swallowing up and Crunching Down Upon My Dream of You. Oil on panel. 8" x 8". I think I'll have to update this photo in the daylight to get a better photo of it.

What if...you are as good as the women artists listed below? What if, from now on, you lived your life with such conviction of this that your level of discipline and your audience reflected the knowledge you hold within your own hands?
Let's have a roll call, shall we?
Grace Hartigan
Deb Schmit
Peggi Nicol
Linny D. Vine
Donna Schuster
Yoko Ono
Euphemia Charlton Fortune
Jean De Muzio
Marion Wachtel
SamArtDog
Jane Freilicher
Bonnie Luria
Joan Mitchell
Jeane Myers
Women artists of the 20th century in a bunch, Art Cyclopedia.
Louise Bourgeois
Karen Phipps
Eva Hesse
Marcia LaBelle
Frida Kahlo
Barbara Muir
There. Let this be a codification of who is who and how the world really does work. We move in and out of each others' lives, woven into the history that we are writing with our colors and words.
This gives me joy. I look at the list of famous artists and I see a group of dedicated, scary smart women, who, out of gracious mercy choose not to join together in any geographical location wishing to avoid a cataclysmic event that may cause disruption in the Force--the Artistic Force, which may cause weather events with colors and light never seen before. We wouldn't want to frighten the citizenry.
See yourself recognized and appreciated. See yourself and your work loved and supported.
That's a good life.