Sometimes we have to let our emotions and convictions flow into our art.
Immigration is, and has been a problem around the world for centuries. This is nothing new. But we butt up against it daily on the news. We only have one planet.
Americans are more than 99 percent immigrants. Not everyone was desperate or in danger in their mother lands, but the hope to change their situations and have better lives brought them here.
This is a little family following their dream...
Im thinking of adding a barbed wire fence behind them, or between them.
It started as a black and white study over a red primer. I was playing with the light against dark, dark against light Burridge mantra.