Newborn I

charcoal on arches paper
Size: 30 x 22.5
This drawing ispart of a series entitled ‘In Fraught Times: Tending to Love’. I have felt besieged by unchecked hatred, biases of all kinds, racism, misogyny, an imploding climate, unabated gun violence, and truth as an endangered commodity. As an antidote, I chose to focus on the humanity and lives of those in my familial orbit, to hold them up and celebrate the goodness present in living, striving and evolving. Many of these works marvel at the magic of the moment and honor the purest of encounters with the special little humans in my life.
The difficult and satisfying challenge in my portraiture is to portray some unarmed truth and in so doing to suggest our complex humanity, our shared experience. And in defiance of all the negativity and hatred peddled continually, I celebrate goodness, empathy, sincerity and caring.

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