The overarching question with my work is, “how do we get home?” The word 'home' means something different for each of us. For many, it literally means a safe dwelling place. A recent study revealed that over 70 million people around the world have been forced from their homes. They are internally displaced people, refugees and asylum-seekers. For others, it’s finding a place where we can be seen while also seeing the needs of the community where we have made common cause. Friendships with deep roots help a community feel like home.

I work with cut paper, paint, and some printmaking techniques. My work primarily shows animals and people helping each other on the next leg of their journey. The animals and their scale are often metaphors for unexpected kindness bestowed upon us. “The Quiet Ones IV” depicts a woman holding out her hands in hope that the fox will share his fish. It’s inspired by this quote:

“. . for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.” 
― George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), Middlemarch

This body of work explores beautiful acts of kindness that simultaneously happen alongside tragic events, yet these quiet acts are rarely recorded. I believe they are what holds the world together.

In His name the nations will put their hope.” (Matthew 12:21)

In “The Clown in the Belfry,” Frederick Buechner writes:

“If we only had eyes to see and ears to hear and wits to understand, we would know that the Kingdom of God in the sense of holiness, goodness, beauty is as close as breathing and is crying out to be born within ourselves and within the world; we would know that the Kingdom of God is what we all of us hunger for above all other things even when we don’t know its name or realize that it’s what we’re starving to death for. The Kingdom of God is where our best dreams come from and our truest prayers. We glimpse it at those moments when we find ourselves being better than we are and wiser than we know. We catch sight of it when at some moment of crisis a strength seems to come to us that is greater than our own strength. The Kingdom of God is where we belong. It is home, and whether we realize it or not, I think we are all of us homesick for it.”

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$35 for a 13 x 17 inch signed reproduction which can be purchased through my website.

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