A Retrospective Look A Memoir

<p>I am a product of the lower income working class. My father worked with machinery while my mother was a variety store clerk for most of her adult life. You could say that I was a poor boy, and my story has been told so many times before.  I want to tell it one last time, because a lot of people don¿t pay attention. This collection looks back at the drawings and paintings done over a lifetime. It began with a hunger to draw that I first noticed and acted on when I was around twelve years old.  This book represents a chance to put them altogether into a whole that traces my development over the years, and I hope it tells my story in full.</p><p><br></p><p>From the start, I have used drawing and painting as a of seeking truth. It allowed me to focus better on the world at hand and ignore everything else. By calling them ¿artwork¿, they looked more lasting as I wanted them