[higgmeister]

We are fortunate that Van Goth was so contemplative in his troubled mind that he left us 36 self-portraits.

I only have one self-portrait, from when I was 19 and it is unfinished.

Maybe I should try it again fifty years later, having forsaken art for the need not to starve.

[higgmeister]

I know how to spell Van Gogh.   Van Goth is how the British mispronounce it.

I have long felt a connection with Van Gogh.   I was born 100 years to the day after Vincent Van Gogh.   I always embraced and studied art from the fourth grade into college.

When I realized that I would rather eat and have a roof over my head, I found other employment.