[Kimberly Dow]

I was going to be in Corpus Christi visiting family a few weeks ago -so I thought I'd enter the competition they were having at the Art Center of Corpus Christi. I usually wouldn't bother because I lived there for years and the winners always lean towards abstract or really grotesque work. (For example, dead babies, women bleeding from breasts, etc.). But, I was there and this one had an unusal size so I entered it anyway. It won an Honorable Mention - which was really funny because the winners were non-realistic figuratives. You just never know about these things.