Dan, the Miriam Resident Painter

There's at least one very good painter whose a regular at Miriam's.  His name is Dan.  He's homeless, fearing that if he should change to a domicile, his painting genie would desert him.  He's at least middle-age and is short, sporting a beard he sometimes paints red.  He wears absurd clothing, wanting to make fun of his appearance for others as well as himself to mock.  He boasts he can paint an impressionistic work in three hours!  Each of his paintings is supposed to highlight a singular emotion he is capturing for his audience to appreciate.  To experience the feeling, they must translate the picture's elements into a spiritual composition without space and time, structurally conceived in a bare-bone feeling-dimension.

To conceive of paintings as conveying only feelings, the objects identifiable in the picture become  imaginary; not representing real things, only the ideas of what each item might seem to be.  A person's feet, for example, are blobs at the bottom of stilt-legs appearing on canvas, just suggestions of real feet.

Dan loves to paint Biblical religious scenes in his geometric box of fourfold delimiters--lines drawn to come together at the picture's corners.  He seems to grasp a Biblical view that the myths told therein have intrinsic value--to be enjoyed for their own existence in a universe of paintings.