In one of my favorite paintings from this experimental method, Resistance, incredible photos from the New York Times magazine of the Women’s March in Washington DC become the underpinnings and inspiration for an explosion of blurred faces in a sea of pink. At the top you can see the Washington DC skyline as captured by the photographer. In the dark lower left hand corner, you can see the faces of the early suffragettes peeping through the paint. Next to them, you can find several faces of black women who fought for voting rights during the Civil Rights Movement. These are the women upon whose shoulders we now stand. Am I becoming a political painter? Maybe so..or maybe I’m just a concerned citizen with a paintbrush who sees the world as both ugly and beautiful at the same time–with beauty winning out eventually.
