Survivor
The brick wall: here it is both a barrier that blocks one's movement to another place and a seemingly solid structure that can fracture. All are survivors: the wall, the pigeon, and the city of San Francisco seen through the window. This painting has multiple meanings to me. Among them is my experience of coming to the Bay Area as a graduate school student, feeling alone due to having no friends or family nearby, and wondering how I was going to survive in an unknown urban environment and in the art world itself. Reaching the place where I can fly as an individual and explore my creative vision has been my journey. Acrylic on Canvas. (Black band at bottom does not appear on artwork.)