abstraction --a naughty word to some

A good friend on line really liked an old self portrait I offered in our art discussion and went to great lengths to tell me how she didn't like my abstractions, apologetic to the end. I know that the area requires aome special background in order to understand what's happening and some folks even get angry over it. " a chimpanzi could do better", so I'll give you all a taste of my long ago experience in oil painting . . .ME about forty years ago. She really liked that so maybe you will too.