{'fraction_non_alphanumeric': 0.01800720288115246, 'fraction_numerical': 0.0, 'mean_word_length': 4.245283018867925, 'pattern_counts': {'":': 0, '<': 0, '<?xml version=': 0, '>': 0, 'https://': 0, 'lorem ipsum': 0, 'www.': 0, 'xml': 0}, 'pii_count': 0, 'substrings_counts': 0, 'word_list_counts': {'cursed_substrings.json': 0, 'profanity_word_list.json': 0, 'sexual_word_list.json': 0, 'zh_pornsignals.json': 0}}
Barbara Diane Barry on a Beloved Work of Art

I would be hard put to categorize any single painting of mine as the beloved one, mainly because many are loved for the moments they represent as well as the visual satisfaction they give me. I chose this particular painting because it emerged from a critical period in my artistic life—a time when I was becoming filled with self-doubt about my ability to take my artistic work far enough, to take risks, or to trust my ideas. Titled Celebration of Life, it marks a return to what I love most about painting, which is the lusciousness of paint itself and the whimsy of line and bold color. This painting clearly concerns birth, but two things are not obvious by looking at it: the process that brought it into being and that this birth is, in a sense, about my own rebirth as an artist.