I Met a Wise Old Man That Said if American Turn from God We Will Have Hard Days and Hard Nights and if You Make Your Bed Hard You Will Lay in It, 1995

According to Proctor, she was called to 'get a door and paint' after a thirty day fast following the deaths of her grandmother, aunt and uncle in a fire. Inspired by the sayings of her grandmother, Proctor painted a number of doors throughout 1995 and 1996 (Told by Mary Proctor, "I Believe in My Mission," Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art, Vol.2, William Arnett and Paul Arnett, eds. (Atlanta, 2001), pp. 452-453).