Artist Alexei Jawlensky, Russia, Germany
oil wax medium on cardboard, 1928
The name of the painting is Sorrow, the word I searched in art titles first because of the school shooting in Nashville. Before I learned of the shooting, I’d been thinking of the losses of two important women I know.
Both women lived long, full lives, one dying in December at age 98, and one dying in February at age 96. They were smart, strong women full of many talents and were greatly loved by those blessed to know them. Both showed me enormous kindnesses at different times in my life, and each of them had a son who changed my life and helped shape who I am in profound ways. I will always be grateful for those men and their mothers.
I can’t help but wonder what amazing things three nine-year-old children and three adults in their sixties would have continued bringing to the world if it weren’t just so important that people in this country remain “free” to buy assault weapons that exist for the sole purpose of quickly killing large numbers of humans.
unwell, fed up and asymmetric?
Pretty close to the mood I felt.