Empathy Over Time

Woodburnt, and painted basswood with nails and thread

Original image 21″ x 16″

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(In this Empathy series of four works, circles represent beings, bare wood represents suffering, and threads stretched by nails are good intentions and thoughts that connect sometimes, but also at times miss their mark, represented by directionless threads.

The bare wood areas represent actual scarcity, or fear of scarcity, or scarcity mindset.)

This painting is about empathy for the human condition over time. The bare wood in this painting represents suffering. Empathy, shown by the threads stretched out like good intentions, sometimes meets the needs of people suffering, but oftentimes misses the mark, shown by a lack of connection.