That is the name of this watercolor with oil pastel and pencil. Indeed it all comes together some way: the mask, the clown, the virgin, the Arizona landscape in pencil, the words, the whimsical flowers, the half red profile. Tony liked to challenge himself by making it a bit harder to do. I seem to remember he did this drawing at the studio of Dave Huntzinger, probably enticing Dave to be a bit freer and wilder in his compositions. When in distress painting and making music would be the only thing that would calm him down. The concentration chased the bad moods. The pieces all fit in a place. That day in June in 1995 after a bad episode in the hospital the pieces did fit. So he gave Dave the drawing.
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