Conversation
watercolor
30 x 22
framed size: 38.5 x 31
“Conversation” came to me as we were experiencing the pandemic. People were isolated and, in many cases, not able to speak to each other in person. As I painted, the skirt felt like a flag unfurling to encompass a dialogue among many people. I began to think about the wider meaning of this image as it related to a founding principle of this country. This great experiment called the United States of America was born of immigrants escaping a monarchy to live in freedom. Women of every color and creed–an underserved, underestimated, and overlooked population–constituted the spine of our nation, working tirelessly to shore up their families. They developed their own networks of communication, which eventually became systematized and even voted into law. The woman depicted here contains multitudes–depicted in her skirt, under the “flag” of protected speech.
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