Despair

Cellular Anatomy of Despair (With Little Rays of Light Shining Through) — Watercolor pencils, colored pencils, paint pens, ink on watercolor paper.

My art is often about experiencing conflicting emotions, sometimes within a single moment. This is a concept our culture at large wants us to reject. (We must always be happy, positive, and awesome.) Many pieces address the coexistence within us of sadness and happiness, anger and compassion, love and loneliness, and, with this one pictured here, despair and hope.