48 x 48
Acrylic on canvas
4400.00
Adjective: Grown or produced in one’s own garden
This piece is the most direct painting I’ve made in response to the effects of Covid-19, stay-at-home orders and social distancing. My survival tactics were very simple; stay at home, paint, dance, cry, eat ice cream, and repeat.
I have used droplets of water in a previous self portrait to symbolize growth, the droplets in this piece are tears but it turns out that there’s growth in those too. The layers and intersecting lines reveal that it is possible that more than one thing can be true at any point and if I look closely I see that the butterfly is a self-portrait.