Sometimes I felt like the gallery was a little bit large since my paintings were spaced out, but at the same time, I loved it like that because it allowed each person to relate to my painting in a private setting, since the next person would be a few feet down.

At the opening, a reporter asked me why I named the gallery Hazel’s eyes and said it was an unusual name to give a gallery. I told him it was named that because the public would be seeing the world from my eyes, I was giving them a view of the world from my perspective, hence the name.

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