Carry On
Price range: $25.00 through $1,900.00
2026
50″ x 25.5″ (57.5″ x 33.5″ framed)
Acrylic, collage, oil pastels, colored pencil on canvas
Carry On was never meant to be figurative. Like most of my abstract work, it began with layers of intuitive painting – adding, covering over, scraping back, collaging, drawing and repeatedly rotating the canvas to keep me from getting too attached to any single orientation.
But as always, the conflict of the world around me seeped into the painting. I was carrying a lot of anger and heartbreak about the bombings and killings in Gaza, alongside what is happening to immigrant families in the U.S. — the abductions, deportations, and separations leave so many women and children paying the price for policies that feel cruel, unnecessary, and deeply un-American to me.
At one point, I turned the canvas upside down and a figure slowly appeared — not something I planned, but something the painting revealed. What initially felt like a reclining form gradually shifted into a moving portrait, hovering somewhere between anguish and calm.
The figure in Carry On isn’t meant to be any one person. It’s more like a witness, or a carrier of grief — yet still standing, still moving, still somehow holding space for beauty amid the chaos. For me, that tension is the heart of this piece: the weight of the world, and the stubborn, quiet resolve to keep going anyway.
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