Two Shootings and a Call to Action 2014-2019
This series of three paintings is a documentation of two shootings, one at a high school and another at a Synagogue in Pennsylvania along with a simple message about unity and coming together to help solve the problems we face In our societies today. It is about what we leave behind and what is yet to come and the answer to which can only be found within ourselves.
It is in essence a portrait of AMERICA on two different levels, we seem to be a species capable of complex thinking and creativity, love and compassion and yet at the same time calculated destructiveness and even murder. It is this human trait of love and unity that will carry us into the future and this triptych is the message we will deliver, to remember our past and to make the future better for all of us. We must act on those most precious things in life by helping to preserve them, and to create beautiful things and we should look unto ourselves for the answers, for truth, for own history – and these tools give us hope.
It too is about gun violence in our country and it has been far too long since our own government has taken any actions at all to stop the senseless killing in our schools, homes and places of worship. We must stop hate in any and all forms if we are to move in a positive direction for all of the world and our children most importantly.
RED: THE SHERIFF's WORDS
The last school shooting of 2013, December 13, Arapahoe High School, Centennial Colorado. These are the words of Sheriff Grayson Robinson as spoken when asked by a reporter to reveal the name of the killer.
A CALL to ACTION
2015 MERGE is a painting that asked everyone in the world to please come together and let us solve the problems of this world in a way that is best for all of humanity and let us do it in themes of our children and families.
2019: AND NONE SHALL MAKE THEM AFRAID: Documenting the L'Simcha (Tree of Life) Synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh, PA October 27, 2018 for all of those injured and to those who lost their lives. Part of a sermon by Rabbi Jacob Rothschild May 9, 1958 from the Book of Ezekiel. Remember Krystallnacht, Remember The Holocaust.
