The Mother: New Work on Paper

 

The Mother, acrylic on paper in my journal, 2025

Work painted for The Art Life: Building Your Visual Vocabulary 

What is important to you, what do you hold dear?

How has the world around you impacted your work and your life?

How does one express humanity in their work?

When do we realize our connectedness and interdependence?

Asking the questions can be just as important as finding any answers.

"No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. 1 The force of these comments is directed equally, I think, at poets who think critically and at critics whose work aims at a close appreciation of the poetic process. The main idea is that even as we must fully comprehend the pastness of the past, there is no just way in which the past can be quarantined from the present. Past and present inform each other, each implies the other and, in the totally ideal sense intended by Eliot, each co-exists with the other."

Edward W. Said, Culture and Imperialism