Tonight, October 5, 2018, my childhood friend will present me a wondrous gift at my first art show I have ever had as an adult. A week ago Marilyn Reed recalled a art show that Christine Rosamond Benton invited her too around 1977. Christine’s artwork on the wall was much different. She told Marilyn she was no longer with Ira Roberts. Marilyn has written an account of this show, and, her loving memories she owns of two creative siblings. When she hands me a envelope, the end of Capturing Beauty will have a beginning, and an end. There will be closure and forgiveness.
This is the first portrait of Rosamond that comes with her famous ‘Empty Spaces’. Anticipating, and foreseeing what would unfold in the Kavanaugh hearing, I wrote the following. I tried to out our message on the canvas, but, ran out of room.
“Purposely unfinished portrait of John and Christine Rosamond Presco, two artisitic siblings who suffered extreme abuse from both alcoholic parents. Rosamond drowned on her first sober birthday. She was a world famous artist. Her autobiography naming her abusers, was disappeared. I have thirty years sobriety. Our story was heard by our brothers and sisters in AA. Fill in their faces, and the faces of siblings who suffer, and whose healing is a work in progress. This is the first portrait of my beloved sister.”
John Presco
Sept. 29, 2018
11:30 P.M.
Photograph of Marilyn Reed taken by her friends, Steven Silverstein.
https://www.silversteinphotography.net/
Rosamond Press 
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