Saving Grace Women's T-Shirt

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In my mind "Saving Grace" pertains to three things in this painting.

1. The ragged doll found in the pile of garbage name is Grace.

2. Despite the desperation of the man’s profession as a scavenger, he still found generosity in his heart.

3. Grace is also the little girl’s name. With the gloom, despair and hardship of her work, the happiness brought by the doll ‘saves’ her, even for a moment, from her bleak environment and situation.

I paint visual narratives. I try to create stories with themes that range from the blissful to the brooding. Typically, my compositions are laden with common and personal symbolism. My works seem to have disconnected elements but they are in fact linked in the way that I see them. To the audience, however, they are like puzzles; open to varied personal interpretations. I don’t like to confine myself in a box. Some days I paint social commentaries. Other days I just paint my personal observations of issues that pertain to almost anything under the sun - this can be political, social, environmental, religious, cultural, and even agricultural. I try to paint realities in, out, and of life. Early in my career as a painter, I was mostly...