within these walls,18"x24"

These paintings are on stretched and prepared canvases,size, 11"x 14",mixed media on canvas;acrylic and oil paint,sand,string.They are informed by stories about women who have suffered trauma and their hope to survive.The titles of each painting are from the book by Kathleen Glasgow,girl in pieces and The Orphan Tale by Pam Jenoff.

Motherless Child

in the endless blanket of white

against the burning sky

in that second everything was alright

the air was now misty

moonlight shines down brightly

to make a river worthy of drowning in

to quiet the black outside

a hole that starts to burn inside

it rips your very being into pieces

THESE ARTWORKS ARE MIXED MEDIA ON PRIMED AND FRAMED CANVAS, SIZES 24'X36', INFORMED BY THE BOOK, BY PAM JENOFF, THE ORPHAN’S TALE AND THE BOOK, THE DAUGHTERS OF JUAREZ. I embrace these words by artist CY Twombly, on the preparation of painting: "I sit for two or three hours and then in 15 minutes I can do a painting, but that's part of it. You have to get ready and decide to jump up and do it; you build yourself up psychologically, and so painting has no time for brush. Brush is boring g, you give it and all of a sudden it's dry, you have to go. Before you cut the thought, you know? “Cy Twombly

she lived in color

the blackness was dried blood

she was number 278

skin hunger

SOLD

the cotton fields

before her mind broke

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the sky is a collage of color

THESE CANVASES ARE EACH SIZE 6"x8",MIXED ON STRETCHED AND PRIMED CANVAS and INFORMED BY THE BOOK,THE ORPHAN'S TALE,by PAM JENOFF>

i awoke in that cold room without

his warmth had filled my arms

THESES CANVASES ARE 8"x10",mixed media on prestretched and framed canvases informed by the book ,The Orphan's Tale by Pam Jenoff,with a focus on emotional mark making.

detail of the triptych, remembering the other babies on the train

remembering the other babies on the train(triptych,each panel 8"x10")

innocent killings,(,triptych,each panel is 8"x10")

the air is still with that predawn darkness, (triptych, each panel is 8"x10")

from my own dreams,(diptych,each panel is 8"x10")

the air has a slightly burnt smell,(diptych,each panel is 8"x10")

THESE ART WORKS ARE STRETCHED ON PRIMED CANVAS,SIZES 18"x24" AND INFORMED BY LITERATURE

the child's hands were bound together#1

the child's hands were bound together #2

no name#1

no name#2