"I Will Die In The Tall Grass With Headphones On is a painting about my own death. In this painting there are lots of insects. My dog is trying to defend my body from the vulture, but the cat just walks away from a lost cause.

My Buddhist teacher told me to contemplate impermanence and this painting is my contemplation, all of my Picnic at Sunset paintings are really about impermanence. I keep longing to “get back to normal” but really, there is no such thing as normal, and there is definitely no such thing as back. The thing is to learn to live comfortably in a world I can’t understand or predict to learn to live at the edge of the woods-- for that, I think I have to look to the crone that comforts the old man." –Ashley Norwood Cooper