Art is a frontier where we find each other while lost by reaching across cultural borders and social thresholds.
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We're responsible to be faithful to the vision we are open to recieve. I paint the inherent dignity of each individual person who sits for a portrait, they're not saints , not ikons .The "Iconic" Portrait Strand work shared here is an ongoing collected community of sitters mostly drawn from life then painted -the corpus represents everyone as one ever-growing work of art- we're all going to die whether famous or unknown.
Where do you find inspiration?Art happens when you show up , that's when silence invites muses to be present for action, what's authentic and real is vast , dwelling well below the surface , we're just channeling it. Embracing mystery and saying yes, trusting the effort is nessesary. My refugee family escaped Soviet Stalinist genocide as displaced persons , so I count myself among all persons lucky to be a citizen in resiting all forms of persecution and delusion, this is built into my art.
What would you do with $25,000?I volunteer to continue a program of healing through art, bringing people together.
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