Reeve's Pheasant

My attempt at this beautiful bird

I got in trouble with the law and I made this for public defenders office that helped me file all the paperwork that was required of me.

I was going to keep this because it looked perfect in my kitchen, but this was too good of a painting for me to keep to myself. I was honored to give it to the Public Deferenders Office. I hope I made it to their wall.

I started making this the day after I was stalked by my abusive ex. He had a revolver on his hip and a big fat realtor blocking my way of movement on the sidewalk. I was walking my dog, June 18th, Friday, 11:44am. While I was making this painting I thought about all the emergency service people who helped me that day. My abusive ex threatened to kill me and I went to the police, this was in a different county from where I live now. In fact my abusive ex drove over 3 hours, almost four hours to not only stalk me but to try to continue to harass me. When we were together he'd get me cornered and he's poke me until he got the reaction he wanted.

I saw an elderly couple getting on tricycles as I saw them get out of their vheilces. I started calling 911 but the call wasn't going through. Kept hanging up on me. Over and over I tried until I looked up from my phone and just walked into the street. The first vhecile was a big white van and I knocked on the window and in the clamest voice I could muster I said "Can you please call 911, I can't get through". It was an ADT Security Technician. He spoke to the officer for me and the officer called the emts because I was having a panic attack. I fought with the emts, the student tried to touch me. I walked home so mad. I was denied a pap smear from my last "provider" and she molested me. They tried to offer me medication for my ADHD and I refused. I said, "I don't want your drugs, I want a pap smear". I think, it was a stressful day and I'm not reading my journal anytime soon again to refesh the pain.