Crying Man with Crone and Black Swallowtails and Crying Men Are Comforted By the Divine Mother (and a Beagle) are paintings that connect the Girl’s Room Paintings with the Picnic at Sunset Paintings. Crones and Witches live at the edge of the woods. They are healing figures, but also dangerous. They worship the Divine Mother. I think Vesper kind of relates to these paintings, though even I am not sure I know what that one is about. The edge of the woods is a hard place to understand. I have walked in the woods a lot this summer and in a way I have seen walking in the woods as a metaphor for this past year and this time of my life. I have had more questions than answers. I have had to live with uncertainty, and there is a lot of uncertainty in these paintings.