It may seem like 'retrospective' week in my gallery, but events have brought many things to mind. I've wanted to do something for Gun for a long time, but haven't regained enough skills to do something worthy. So after several tries, I took an old painting and transformed it in PS. It'll never match what she does, mind you, but it's the love behind it that matters. Anyone who knows Gun knows she's one of the most loved people on this site. When I came here, people said, "oh, everyone loves Gun!" I'm privileged to call her 'friend', and as privileged to learn at her feet. If one looks closely at her images, they'll find gallery-fuls of delicate textures, the most tactile primitives to the most refined, the most complex emotional gestures, images of immense power—emergence, submergence, outwardness, inwardness—exquisite lights; and above all, those colors—her unnamable violets, blues, reds, etc, which tap places so intimate one can't find the words. (I should add: If you've seen her pre-digital work, you know she did marvelous paintings, drawings & sculptures. Now she's digital...and it's as if she'd done it all her life! Those of us who go batty with Photoshop and a mouse know it's not easy. Gun makes it look like she does it in her sleep...) Well! Gun made images for me! Including variations-on-soundwaves from music I'd uploaded. But she also did two gallery posts in my honor, which I've never been able to match. At least now I can say I posted something back...But above all, she's a wonderful friend, and even allows me to call her "sister"—which honors me since her first sister is suzanne, and they really are sisters...She's recognizable by that 'butty' avatar and I'm pretty sure she's inhabited by spirits. Gun, you're the best. Please take this candelabrum as my gift to you. If I could paint the love behind it, this would be a Rembrandt... My love to you, sis, Mark