Group Show: Hard(ly) Soft at the Portland Art Institute, March/April 2007, curated by Amy Zollinger
Title: Healing the Child Within
At age 12, my grandfather witnessed the murder of his own grandfather and aunt at the family breakfast table in Burns, Oregon. Six years later, upon enlisting to serve in World War II, he had all of his teeth completely removed in what the Navy told him was the best solution to correcting his dental problems.