I met Marlo in 1986 or so when we both occupied studio spaces in North Oakland on 61st Street. I was immersed in commercial photography and she was a painter. Her passion was painting- and birds. Conrad is a green headed Amazon parrot, a female as it turns out, a fact not learned for some time after she was given to her by a friend. Conrad, or Lady Conrad as she came to be called, did not like men, a fact I learned first hand when Marlo would venture up to Washington to visit family and I was tasked with her care. Conrad also didn't like her cage very much and was a pretty good escape artist. I never ventured into Marlo's studio without some sort of protection, which was usually a baseball bat.
Marlo passed away in her studio on August 21, 2010. The world is one gifted artist short now and I've lost a friend I always thought I would see again.
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