Week one
Colin Cherlin was raised in Parma, OH. His mother was a elementary school teacher and at young age took him to museums in a attempt to give him the culture she felt their poor neighborhood was lacking. His father worked impossible hours in the salt mines below Lake Erie. Taken by the art he saw prior that day, he attempted to recreate his own. The result was this first portrait of his father, arriving home from work.
Week two
Years later, Colin’s mother left to meet her sisters new husband in Fort Riley, Kansas. Upon her return she became deathly ill. She was soon diagnosed with Spanish flu and died like most of the infected. Colin’s father was in shambles. The lost of his wife compounded with her suspected infidelity, forced him to renounce everything she stood for. No longer given supplies or opportunity for art, Colin would not let his passion die. Using the often uncompleted newspaper puzzles his father would disregard, Colin created this work in secret.
Week three
Longing to be released from mundane life of factory work his father had planned for him, Colin stowed away aboard a merchant marine freighter. At the end of the cruise, he found himself in the heart of where he was surrounded by numerous other kindred spirits, the city of Paris, France. Now immersed in artistic culture, Colin was able to start to full explore his potential but not without lingering regrets of home. This early painting shows the struggle he had deciding his true path in life.
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