Power and Influence

16"x 20" Mixed Media (acrylic paint, charcoal, oil pastel).

Power and Influence is a modern art understanding of why reconciliation, forgiveness, and restitution are often withheld or left unvalued in our communities today. It portrays how we are too quick to vilify and create one-dimensional images of any sort of opposition. Instead of choosing to see how each of the images allow us to have depth and understanding of the whole, we single out singular facets of the people we disagree with and leverage them as reasons for holding onto and fueling cycles of bitterness and hate.