Paintings Poems and Pathos

This work is a collection of painting produced for two exhibitions of Loeb's paintings produced in 2004. That year was a break out time for the author and a time of great productivity. The poems and writings of that time were the result of personnal upheaval introspection and a lot of drinking. Relationships and feelings about padding around in America at that time are pretty well documented in the poetry and in the subject matter of the paintings. The author published poerty at a young age and has painted seriously since high school. Wounded in life by self infliction, it was natural the author would choose creativity as his balm.