Breaking Old Habits

30? x 40? oil on 15 oz hand primed canvas stretched over a surreptitiously rescued drafting table headed to the dumpster when the drafting classes in Greenhaven Correctional permanently closed.
A massive clamp, guided by divine forces, crushes the hardened weight of an old habit as the protagonist looks on in painful shock. While the waters will cleanse and heal, and the breaking is harsh, it is beginning of liberation—the hurt before a healing.