NURTURE, PROTECT SERIES PART 2 / DATE: 2020
MEDIUM: Carand'ache Neocolor Watersoluble wax pastel on 1/8 in wood panel
SIZE: 38 x 48 x 1/8 inches ( 121.92 × 96.52 × .125 cm )
TECHNICAL AND CONCEPTUAL GOALS: My conceptual goal was first to hopefully motivate the viewer to research the meaning of the word, then to understand or begin a journey of reflection and understanding that the meaning of the word behind this piece has its own definition, my approach to define it, mirrors the definition, and the reflection is the result, the outcome of what I present in this image. The eye that is watching above all is asking if we will, if we have or if when would we understand the value of life. Sonder as its definition says, is the profound feeling of realizing that everyone, a stranger or not, has a life as complex as one's own, which we are constantly living despite one's personal lack of awareness of it.
DESCRIPTION: To me the reflection to this definition as I see the world today; is to have empathy and be humble to one another life as if it was our own whether it is a human or any living thing. The relationship between an elephant as the representation of any living thing here in my painting, and the child as us humans is of empathy, of respect, of consideration, of care. One lays on the other as the other kneels in demonstration of care. If such relationship can be reflected symbolically on our relationship with one another, then we are to consider what the word Sonder calls for. We are not alone, just like any animal or any human we all must find value in life. The dynamic of the blue gradients around the eye and in the front dimensional plane, emulate the energy field of all space we live in and the eye as the supreme or the devine universe reaction to our actions.