Phil - original portrait paintingPhil is constantly aware of his own reflection. He finds ageing suits him but he doesn't like time passing. If it were up to him he'd stop the clocks and let his sure to happen breakthrough flow through his fingers ignoring his bills, ignoring the annoying landlord's judgemental look when he walks out the door late in the mornings, ignoring the little bird inside his head saying he ought to have been discovered by now. People just don't get what a man

He isn’t aware of it

season it with a little of my own personality and voilà

Bon original portrait painting was finished in November 2022

Would anyone agree with her Britt wondered

but he figures a false life is a life too

disrespectful of rules and conventions

and the world isn’t giving anything back

mix it up with a good hat I found particularly nice in an old lady I saw down the street the other day

that dogs and hearts are better kept on a leash

he knows the only thing he’s really achieved is a few fleeting seconds of immortality

unbothered by the fuss — that makes people swarm to him like flies to a light

then so will his very essence