The Way

"The Way" - oil, oil pastel, encaustic, charcoal and assemblage on canvas panel 40” x 48” x 1.38” (Black Aluminum Frame)

If true religion is in caring for the widow and the orphan; after my neighbor became a widow, it really got me thinking. (My wonderful neighbor was so kind to model for me for this painting <3)

The man's ring is real & I was sure to make it the wedding finger for ‘covenant’…. for promise of relationship. The woman, in the act of giving, wears a bracelet that bears the symbols for the ten commandments. And the little boy that tugs daddy’s leg has an exposed tag that reads “inexcess” and “made in the USA”; so I am also making a social statement... as this country has SO MUCH and yet where is the generosity... where does it go? Who is walking the talk (in the bracelet)?

Definition: excess: an amount of something that is more than necessary, permitted, or desirable. It is interesting how the definition of ‘excess’ is overtly ‘negative’ sounding... I am also speaking to the sad state of how children are often viewed (an excess), but they as the widow are a treasured blessing!

There is ‘genuine’ and then there is lip-service, and in this piece I present to you that ‘The Way’ is in ‘The Doing’ (get out there… .there is enough B.S. in cheap talk).
Framed with white barnwood liner encased in black metal.

By Jennifer Sowders

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