Abstract in 2020

With all the chaos, noise of the last 12 months, I think we have stopped listening to each other. Even in the deadly quiet of a pervasive disease, many of us have covered our ears. For me, finding my way forward can only be achieved by exploring my emotions of the past year. I believe when a conversation becomes ineffectual or the words to painful to say, images can speak for us. They can force us to look at ideas or emotions that make us angry or uncomfortable. Sometimes, these images can even expose a common thread where words cannot. When I closed my eyes and let myself just feel the anxiety, loneliness, depression, anger, disgust, love and acceptance, the end result was the images on these canvases.