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Made in 2013, this image frankly was about feeling sad. A rather self indulgent emotion, yet common. I wish i had more to say about this, writing this now feel shocking one dimensional. I had lost contact with my mother and so many beautiful people from drug use that it deeply effected me. The silver lining is that I stoped using because I didn't want to be sad. A simple solution to a devastating problem, do not partake. I know why people do drugs and I don't fault anyone for numbing themselves to reality. I don't judge, ever. I remain neutral. From personal experience I can say you will have to stop or you will die.

Rene Carol Capone (b. September 22, 1978) is an American figure painter known for his depiction of the male form with whimsical, erotic and mysterious imagery; often used together. He also works with stories and myth. Capone began his career as an artist creating dreamlike, sensual, often homoerotic images of young men in search of love, identity, and their place in the world. His paintings and drawings are highly prized by art collectors in the LGBT community, they now hang on the walls of private and corporate collectors around the world. Born in upstate New York in the town of Niskayuna. He is the oldest of four children. His relationship to the famed mobster Al Capone remains a well kept mystery. His Birth certificate legally says...