Original Oil Painting

Materials: Oil and sewn found objects on canvas

Dimensions: Framed painting 37.25” x 37.25” x 2”

About: A dear friend of mine lost a baby. And while I know miscarriage is common and that several women in my family and close circles had experienced it, this was the first time I really sat with the loss of the potential of a tiny person. He lost his daughter. The beautiful and the hard and the gory are so often all swirled together. I paint to process, or rather, I often find myself processing while I paint. I thought a lot about the tribe of women who bore children and made our present moment possible. I thought about how children push our imaginations into the future. I thought about hope, about biology, about personhood. I thought about potential. And I felt connected to all the people who came before, all the people who almost were, and who will come in the future. Me and this little baby girl, we are somehow a part of this big, human existence.

This piece is professionally framed in hard wood.

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