“Deliverance”

This piece was created in the days following the January 12, 2010 earthquake that devastated Haiti. In reading the news updates, seeing the photos, viewing the video footage, listening to the personal accounts, my heart was continually broken. I felt compelled to educate myself on the history of Haiti – shocking, cruel, unimaginable – which cracked my heart open even more so.

And yet, I couldn’t shake the hopeful vision of a ‘deliverance’ from all of this. A chance to start over. To re-shape the external and internal forces that have haunted Haitians for centuries.

A few years ago, when my grandmother was in the hospital, I painted ‘Liberation‘. While the circumstances and scope of each event are so obviously different, both have awakened my heart to a greater depth of loving, vulnerability, and resilience.

24″ x 18″

Oil stick on wood panel.

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