“In my 5th year of homelessness. A very difficult painting of very difficult times. My demons have chased me into the Cascade Mts alone and tortured.” — Jack Sours
This self-portrait is from a photograph taken in the Cascade Mountains approximately ten years after Jack Sours returned from Vietnam — after going to college, getting married, having kids, and getting divorced. In some ways he never really left those mountains and remained tortured all this life, and that’s what brought him to paint his impressions of the Vietnam War starting in 2013.
Jack’s children recorded an audio description (belowO, including their father’s thoughts about this painting as well as their impressions of their father during this time.
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