This is one of two pictures taken Aug 30, 2005, the next day after the storm when we went to see what  had happened to the shop. (Click here to see interior shots of the shop.) I had pulled some of the paintings from my husbands office . Fiberglass insulation that was against the wall on the other side of the shop had been washed  over to this spot.  The painting at the bottom right  with the three flowers and cupped hands was  featured at my November 2004 exhibit " Colors of a Non Typical Existance" , at the now defunct  For Love of Art Gallery, Biloxi. Below, only the paintings and sketchbooks  on the very top of the shelvs did not get damaged. There is also a portrait of my daughter with violin and a bust portrait of Jefferson Davis.
			This is  where most of the art was stored at  the sheetmetal shop, in my husbands office.  Like all of the sheetmetal shop offices,  they were inside the big steel beam building and were a 'room-within-a-room'. Water or flooding were never brought into  thought because the building is elevated at least 3 feet on a concrete slab.  Also,  we figured   everything would be safer  there than in a wood house or trailer.    The only thing that has been touched before the photo was taken was the (now) rusty tool box near the bottom of the photo.  It was sitting on the bottom of the shelf (leg can be seen at the extreme right bottom of photo) and had washed off; all I did was open it.  All  of my paints, with the exception of a few at the house, was in this box, as well as some brushes and other miscellanious tools.  Note how fast rust and mold has already started taking over.    All of the paintings were neatly stacked and arranged on the shelves; it looked like someone had  gone in there and had a fit. Note the mold on the desk and all the brown silty mud on the floor. Very slippery!
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