War: Always a Tsunami of Tragedy

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Missing You
20×16″ Acrylic on canvas panel

I posted this before when I was thinking of the war in Ukraine. But with recent events in the middle east I wanted to repost it since it very much applies there as well.

“No one is born hating another person… People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” – Nelson Mandela

Missing You

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Missing You
Acrylic on canvas panel 16×20”

I was thinking of the war in Ukraine as I was painting this. It didn’t start out that way, though. Originally there was going to be a suburban house in the background, yes the heart pierced with an arrow, but more of a lovers apart theme. But as I painted, this is what it wanted to be.

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Is It Safe Yet?

Posted on by Spyder Webb

16×20″ Acrylic on Canvas Board

We’ve all had to protect ourselves, and we’re wondering if it’s safe to emerge now. Protect ourselves from what? Well, take your pick: prejudice & hate, broken hearts, disease, toxic culture, ecological disaster, war…

I imagine we could all come up with something that’s personal to us, but it really doesn’t look safe at the moment does it? There are some things that we’ll never be completely safe from. And yet we have to function in the world somehow, even if things never get objectively better.

Or do we just retreat into our hardened bunkers and isolate?