SMALL WORKS

This new work is a juxtaposition of the illness in our society (war, pollution, genetically engineered food, cancer, greed, etc) with the very personal undefined illness of my child. It's one thing to feel empathetic about the ills of the world. It's another to face them in the eyes of the ones you love. The irony of abundant water with endless thirst.

And then there's the hope, the cure in nature, the pond teaming with life and answers, the organic garden, the short memory of it all when the that same child starts to smile again.
Did I get this in these paintings?

I'll let others tell me. I just glued down some pretty scenes of endangered sacred lands, some beads, some of my 10year old's self portraits, some toys, a dragon, a life jacket, a forest; and passionately covered them in paint. They're small because it is a small world after all.