Moving Boulders
When All Else Fails
Mixed Media by Jenny Dwyer 2016
I was thinking about this piece this morning. My art is often a refuge and a problem solving tool. A coping mechanism for that which I cannot articulate or control. Kinda like what was going on in 2016. And definitely like what is going on now.
There are immovable, intransigent groups of people. Here there everywhere.
About vaccination, about religion, about, about, about just about everything.
When my brain starts to hurt over trying to think ourselves out of this mess. I turn to my art.
In this piece I had decided that looking the problem square in the face, or researching it. Or Reading books from the Intransigent folks? Or watching the news? OH God No! Or just wringing my hands in lamentation?
When nothing is working I Look away. I meditate, I pray. I beseech God to please intervene and help us lowly humans. Our intelligence does not seem to be part of the solution? Of that I am fairly certain.
