Las Geisha Mermaids

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Michael Walker</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 14 WIDTH="837"><div> <IMG SRC="2cfbc020.png" border=0 width="444" height="2" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 113 ><NOBR><div> "I guess there was just a lot of estrogen in the air.</div> <div> I had been doing that thing men don't usually do - <I>listening </I>- as my female friends talked about their lives, </div> <div> their days, their disappointments and frustrations, their likes and dislikes and intermittent joys.</div> <div> Something about the elegance and erudition of geishas, and something about the freed spirit and earth-connectedness of mermaids: </div> <div> hey just intuitively appeared and combined to create this hybrid creature who could express some of what I heard women expressing.</div> <div> These paintings are my empathic love offerings to women: I hope I got some of it right."</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 1523 ><NOBR><div> 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