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Uvalde in Spring Palette explores the dissonance between the commercial imagery of childhood and the gravity of its disruption. Bright, marketable colors associated with youth and seasonal optimism sit uneasily alongside a subject rooted in loss. The painting reflects on the ways childhood is culturally packaged as carefree and safe, while acknowledging the fragility of those assumptions.
Uvalde in Spring Palette
oil and graphite on canvas
48 x 60
2024