Embrace

Embrace. Living is round--that was Jean-Paul's phrase, in a beautiful book on African spaces. But here we embrace in a time of challenge--it's November 2016, election night, and Jeremy (wonderful Jeremy, his head lowered on the right) has checked his phone, it's 8:05 and the news is grim. The things we value--argue for and defend--none of them come free. Even if freedom itself is their very source. You see that here, on the faces--as if in prayer--and maybe we are, for prayer has brought us close.

Is that true, really? Maybe it's the absence of prayer--more a daily resolve--to be good, to be kind, to take the other into account. Into your arms, even, when need be.

A drawing can do this, a painting, too. Any of the things we form with our hands--letting each line, each gesture and form, find it's own endearing truth.

It's very own...


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