24x24 Lil Pink Dress, mixed media - collage and oil s/c

  "... I desired with almost sickening intensity something never to be described... it is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction. I call it Joy, which ... anyone who has experienced it will want it again. ...it might well be called a particular kind of unhappiness or grief. ... It must have the stab, the pang, the inconsolable longing. ...But then Joy is never in our power..."

CS Lewis