YURI CHORNY, BLACK BEAR
painted wood, 12″ x 11″, 2006
He was a featured dancer with a touring circus when he met Ursula Noir by chance at Starbuck’s one afternoon during the intermission of a matinee performance. Their eyes met, he inhaled her honeyed scent and, abandoning the show, he followed her home. He now works as a personal trainer at the gym next door to Ursula‘s nail salon… and has applied for a Green Card. He changed his name to George Black