Last spring, April 6, 2007, due to the expiration of government timber funds, Ashland, Or. , along with many other communities, suffered through the largest shutdown of libraries in the U.S. -ever ! In response, this painting ," Interrupted", was created. It started innocently enough as a First Friday Art Walk demonstration and evolved over the coming weeks into my protest over the closures. The libraries reopened on Oct. 24, 2007.