Hardly Harliquin

Back in the early fifties, when TV was young(er) and black and white, I happened to catch sight of Ethel Merman making a stage entrance. The camera caught her backstage first and her face was utter pathos, shoulders slumped, strained.... But as she received her cue and strutted out on to the stage in view of the audience suddenly, quite suddenly, she shines! Radiant, happy, joy, electric, she shined!! That was my first real introduction to what acting, -any presentation, is really all about.

Mixed media on 12" X 12" colored paper.