Pinata....

 

Pinata (Self-Portrait) is a painting by American artist Tina Mion.  Mion lives in Winslow Arizona where she and her husband own and operate the La Posada Hotel.  That is where I saw this painting along with a large collection of her paintings.  

Here is the artist's description of this painting:

I imagined myself as a pinata.  My mahl stick (to steady my painting arm) is the pinata buster, because painting both sustains and pummels the artist. Tumbling out are the objects and events that make me who I am.  The only parts that were realistic and unbroken by time I finished were my eyes and right hand.  With them intact, all my joy and pain could be stuffed back inside.  Without them, I could no longer paint, and thus would be broken beyond repair, and beyond recognition.