Searing Loss
by Christy Sawyer
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11.000 x 8.500 inches
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Title
Searing Loss
Artist
Christy Sawyer
Medium
Painting - Alcohol Ink
Description
Searching for a way to express my anguish over the tragedy of the brutal death of George Floyd and to process the fear that grips me when I think of my four black grandsons and how vulnerable they are to racial profiling and abuse of power by police, I began to meditate on color as it pertains to inks, my preferred medium, which resulted in experimentation in puddles of intense hues which flowed into and around one another.
Not even realizing what was happening on the page as I was creating it, I gasped when I thought of the pain and suffering, fear and loss of black families past and present. God in Heaven, have mercy.
Not all art should be ‘pretty;’ many songs are sad. Art is a language without words, beating a tempo and signifying emotion. There is something visceral and raw here. Do you see the fear? Can you glimpse the pain, even for a moment?
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June 9th, 2020
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