by William Waggoner

Artwork Description

My Heart Was Going Like Mad

30.0 x 30.0 inches

This panel represents the initial event that triggered my latent obsessiveness and need to control things that I can’t, which was a surprise since only a few months prior I had told a friend it was an either/or circumstance about which I felt ambivalent, but now that was turning out not to be true at all. I hadn’t felt this level of agitation in almost a decade, and my mind was overclocked for weeks looking for a solution to a situation I could do nothing about. The text is a paraphrased snippet from the end of Molly Bloom’s closing soliloquy in James Joyce’s "Ulysses".

Artwork Details

Medium: Painting Acrylic

Genre: Pop Art