Just Your Everyday
 

A3 Acrylic Paint, Wet Strength Paper, Semi Gloss Gel Medium

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We receive images of the terrible things happenning in the world constantly through our days. The refugee crisis, the Venezuelan crisis, the mexican border or the California wildfires. Faced with all these images all the time, the stories begin to pass unnoticed. They lose their seriousness, their reality. We turn off the news, we listen to other things, we forget. 

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Using a mixture of abstraction and texture paired with detailed rendering of aspects of the figures, I attempt to reframe the way the public view these images. The people, the lives and the emotions are still present even if the majority of the world forgets they are there. It may just be about taking the time to look harder, to ground ourselves in someone else's shoes.

 

What may seem like 'just your everyday', is someone elses 'everyday'.  

 

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