Unafraid
Unafraid began life as a simple study in exaggerated figurative painting. But the events in 2025 that created uncertainty as to whether the Supreme Court would uphold it’s 2015 Obergerfell decision (same-sex couples have the fundamental right to marry as guaranteed by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution), led it to become something else.
As an enlightened individual, who happens to be a married gay artist, I was worried about what reversing that decision would mean to all the same-sex couples who simply want the same rights as opposite-sex couples. As the painting evolved I felt it wanted words that would put it from a mere study into an image that would offer support and resistance.
The original poem reads: Be alive in the simple thunder of being, standing tall in the wreckage of law and order to live unafraid – like the sky with no locks, no gates, no borders.






