CAKE

All my life I have struggled with some form of an eating disorder. I have never let it get terribly serious but there have been period when I have binged and purged; I was anorexic at the time of my big coming out at Columbia College in 1979. Once I entered therapy, and my own self-analysis, I developed many different ways to work with this problem, rather than through “acting it out.” It seemed to me that, while my Jewish mother loved me to death, as I was her eldest, she also loved me with sometimes a selfish need for her own empty soul to be nourished. So while I always knew I could go to my mother, I also felt empty inside. It took me a long time to face the fact that the “overweight” person who came to me in my dream, a monster of a being, was actually a child starved for not food, but regard. The way I have learned to “love” and “feed” that child has been to draw him. In this case, his/her name is “CAKE.”  I am curious about how you might paint your own “eating disorder,” or “emotional eating style.” 

.: Paper weight: 5.6 oz/y² (192 g/m²)
.: Giclée print quality
.: Multiple sizes
.: Matte finish