The 100 Art Piece Challenge: #1 Purple Minotaur I have come to realize I paint to escape. I am an overly sensitive sort that tries very hard to be a grown up about the hard truths of the world. I refuse to become callous. I find it all to easy to become cynical and I hate it. When things are overwhelming I paint. In December of 2015 my father passed away. I had no real way of handling it. I had long forgotten the sweet escape of painting. In the throws of my agony, over my father's passing, I