Pieces

sketch

finish

 

 I began this painting a little over a month ago, and it took me a while longer than usual to finish.

I have been noticing a barrage of illness, and unwellness in people—particularly women—close to me lately. Over the past few months there have been life-altering health diagnosese, divorces, a new baby, upheaval...It has been a parade of unravelling and redefining. While the painting began in response to the illness closest to me, as I painted it, it took on the lives and breaking down of women around me. As I painted it I began to see that it might not be a person breaking down into pieces, but rather coming together. The things in life that turn our world upside down bring us to our true selves by shaking out all the other stuff that doesn't matter and leaving us with the rest.

Comments

[Nicole D.]

Beautiful

[EPAM50]

I love your vision. Your talent is an extension on the person that you have come to be. I hope you never lose it.