Cycles

Cycles is such an important drawing in the context of my art career. When I was in college, my art was heavily political and mostly sad or angry. I saw a lot of injustice in the world and wondered why most folks were not outraged. I thought they didn't know. I thought my job as an artist was to show everyone how much awfulness there is in the world so that we could all fix it. Age and maturity opened my eyes and I realized that people are VERY aware of the sadness and pain that fills our world. Too aware. Too many of us walk around with permanent heartbreak. I began to realize that showing the world our problems would not motivate anyone to do anything - myself included. And slowly my work turned towards hope and faith. Those are the tools most of us need to begin tackling the sadness. And those are tools too rarely offered in contemporary art. Cycles represents the very first time I truly and fully tapped into the kind of hope and faith that I now feel called to share with the world. Change was always very hard for me and yet I seemed to always be in a state of flux. But once I completed this drawing and began to truly embrace ALL of life including the pain and the joy, the future and the past, I stopped putting myself through so many trials. I began to settle into myself. This beautiful, inspired drawing has layers of soft color, a dynamic composition, and lovely organic lines.

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