the silent scream

fabric and gel medium on layered wood panel

“Trauma is personal. 

It does not disappear if it is not validated.

When it is ignored or invalidated 

the silent screams continue internally 

heard only by the one held captive.” 

― Danielle Bernock 

Emerging With Wings: A True Story of Lies, Pain, And The LOVE that Heals

the poor and dismissed... they heard it first

repurposed fabric, gel medium and acrylic on wood panel

• Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus
•  I cannot help but conclude 
• that though the world may be tilted 
• toward the rich and powerful,
•  God is tilted toward the underdog. 
• 
  
• -Philip Yancey
• The Jesus I Never Knew

 

it might have been

fabric scraps

on acrylic and wood panel 

For all sad words of tongue and pen, 

The saddest are these,

 'It might have been'.

John Greenleaf Whittier

 A rhino is killed every 12 hours. 

How sad it will be if these endangered species 

become the next “it might have beens” our offspring will call extinct.

wrong will be right

“Right is right even if no one is doing it; 

wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.” 
― Saint Augustine

dismantled burlap

and discarded fabric scraps

on redeemed acrylic canvas

“Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight,
At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more,
When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death,
And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.”

― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe