Often I enjoy discussing newly learned artist and become easy encouraged to keep creating. However, this week our lovely desert of Joshua Tree lost someone very valuable to our community at the hands of the very people that are meant to protect and serve.
I have always leaned on the political side, only out of empathy for human kind and a desire to see those around feel safe and blessed in this life. I struggle with continuing the same song and dance of commissioned works when I know there is a world full of injustice, and that my creativity would be more suited in another format that could draw attention to these issues. Painting another cute flower seems irrational as I age among a world with so much distain toward its own neighbor, while others are left starving in the streets.
Racism, depression, hate crimes, violence toward the lgbt community, voter surpreson and poverty have dominated the news during this pandemic (and number 45s presidency). Perhaps it’s time to rethink how I can apply my talents in another format that attributes to a demand for equality, police accountability, and other social issues. With my biggest concern falling on the educational system and the lack of support it receives maybe I can aim my focus in its direction. With a better education people can remove the blindfold of the previous social constructs shoved in between the missing truths of history books.
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