KATYA REIMANN ◦ WRITER & ARTIST

Helen Sadowy Reimann, Portrait of the Artist's Daughter, ~1972

When I was young, my mother did a number of bad portraits of me. Or so I thought, at the time she was doing them.

My feral child self thought this one in particular was hideous, and especially was furious that she gave me yellow eyes.

Now that I am not young ... I better appreciate that my Mother was a patient painter.

I was not a patient model.

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