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J.J. Graham painted Portrait of a Wandering Mind in 2004, long before turbulence gave way to his far-reaching creations at Hollingsworth Gallery in Palm Coast s City Walk. (© FlaglerLive)
There’s his past as the son of a strict Pentecostal preacher who didn’t allow a TV in the house. There’s his past after losing his mother 10 days before his 10
th birthday, and running away from home a few years after that, to be raised by his grandmother, a NASA scientist who proved his savior on more than one occasion. There are the years in Mississippi, a state that teaches almost anyone who’s lived there in the not-too distant past a thing or two about oppression. There’s a past of dissolution and wanderings around the South and the West, of a broken marriage, of being reborn and redirected through art, and of contending, less than four years ago, with the death of his grandmother after he’d moved to Florida to care for her. And there’s contending with his girlfriend� ....

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