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The paintings in this set reflect my own intuitive expression of Irma’s stories as I listened to them while painting.

Female birds-of-paradise judge their potential mates on their extravagant plumage and dancing. The male on the left dresses up in feathers to impress the observant female. Someone reminisces in the top right corner.

Rows of students, the lighter ones go in the front. Invisible divide, but in plain sight. A perceptive child knows why. A moment of realization that turns everything on its side.

The plane she escaped in, the beautiful beaches, and the small house that her mother fled to while the bombs were falling.

A determined child can learn a language fairly quickly. This type of person refuses to be silenced.

A divide between two lands. So close, yet so far.

The baptism, the falling of the bombs, the chaos: something bright emerges from the darkness.

The great cosmic nothingness.

The thought of never existing, like the thought of infinity. Peering out a window pondering what could be if only…

The sadness and indignation of those fleeing from their homeland.

A beach / seascape reveals itself only slightly as memories and stories are inscribed into its form of shapes, lines, and color. The forms morph into something else – a creature, a flower, or a bird.