Fragmentation

three yellow white blue flowers in a pink vase awkwardly compressed by the hard edges of the paper

I am concerned about the fragmentation of our communities, both locally and on a global scale. Today we seem to live widely separated lives, immune from feeling obligated to meet and acknowledge one another’s humanity.

This crisis of separation, and the inhumanity of distancing from one another is confronted in my artwork.

three yellow white blue flowers in a pink vase awkwardly compressed by the hard edges of the paper
2020 three flowers by anne bell-gouache painting on cardstock