NEW PAINTING Guardian

"Guardian," 24"x30", acrylic mixed media on flat panel. Guardian will be available at a future date, alongside some sister paintings. I welcome inquiries - they may always come to me.

Momma Bears are backwith a ferocity. This was a tough week, to be honest. I can't stop thinking of the children and teachers who lost their lives in the Uvalde elementary school shooting. As a mother myself, a parent of a teacher, with friends who are educators, counselors, administrators et all, well, this guts me. Particularly so after seeing how changed my own community was after this fall's Oxford High School shooting just a few miles from my home. 

So the foxes and rabbits, my own personal totems, got set aside in order for me to process the complexity of feels with my paints. I sat with my own complex responses but also talked to and read many other accounts. I tried to tap in to what people were feeling using a visual language I cultivated while painting the Talisman pieces the last two years..

And the bears came on full force. This one showed up first - fierce and solid, with a veil of delicate daisies between her and the viewer. She is resolved, unyielding, a force to be reckoned with.

I am curious to see how the bear paintings will turn out. One currently is emerging from a long and dark night, the other is sifting through the seasons. And a fourth is too fresh to be able to guess at.

Thanks, as always, for following along with my art journey,
Warmly, Kim

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