The Way We Were VII was created by collaging  prints on paper of two of my pre-Katrina paintings. For many months after Katrina, our beautiful coast looked like it had been hit by a nuclear blast. Before the storm however, it was a lush and beautiful place that I could not stay away from, nor keep myself from painting its glory. This collage was made from two different paintings of the trees which overlooked Cairo’s Bayou, behind our home in Clermont Harbor.