As I was working on this painting, POTUS was attempting to force limits on immigration of fugitives from war in the Middle East. Like many others, whose citizenship in this country is a result of ancestors fleeing from forced partipation in killing other human beings, I felt that it was important to add my voice and presence to a demonstration at our Capitol. My intuitive painting process resulted in some human-like figures emerging through the arches that I had created, and the title of the painting announced itself to me. "Let Them In!"
Thursday Thoughts...
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"(…) we find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows,
the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates. A
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