Even before her life cracked open, Liz cracked open. Her pursuit of what made Georgia O'Keeffe tick drove Liz to pose nude for Richard, the photographer in her Tai Chi class. But what really made her do it? In this new work of fiction by Barbara Linn Probst Liz has created an avatar in O'Keeffe, a way of accessing herself. It's personal, not political, so the going gets rough when Richard exhibits the nudes at the local art gallery where Liz, the married mother of two is a doctoral candidate in art history completing her dissertation on Georgia O'Keeffe. Why do we need surrogates in life
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