While in Paris i visited the the Pompido Centre an art gallery..

.. The words of George Pompido the french prime minister of the time

Art allows the ability to discuss, contest and protest

during this term at college i have been exploring the emotions of loss and grief, particularly the loss of a child through death and abduction .the feeling of needing some thing to hold onto for comfort .Here i explored the clutching onto a  pillow something i wittnessed my own mother doing after the loss of my brother
then i found this line by Jan Glidwell .

.......You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.

this painting done in 2010 called in the presence of god / 9/11

hi this charcoal drawing titled , stolen angel