This layered composition explores how religion functions as both comfort and stagnation. A blurred garden background pulses with motion, representing time's passage and the loss of childhood innocence as we watch loved ones age and revert to childish versions of themselves.
Overlaid is a pale yellow panel with a faint blue Virgin Mary, deliberately difficult to read. This visual discomfort mirrors the chaos generational religious trauma leaves behind. When faith becomes the family narrative, it clouds perception. You begin doubting what your own eyes and ears tell you, as the brain plays tricks shaped by inherited pain.
The title of this painting is meant to be a stark contrast to the painting's anxious energy, reflecting how families remain suspended in cycles of unexamined grief.
This layered composition explores how religion functions as both comfort and stagnation. A blurred garden background pulses with motion, representing time's passage and the loss of childhood innocence as we watch loved ones age and revert to childish versions of themselves.
Overlaid is a pale yellow panel with a faint blue Virgin Mary, deliberately difficult to read. This visual discomfort mirrors the chaos generational religious trauma leaves behind. When faith becomes the family narrative, it clouds perception. You begin doubting what your own eyes and ears tell you, as the brain plays tricks shaped by inherited pain.
The title of this painting is meant to be a stark contrast to the painting's anxious energy, reflecting how families remain suspended in cycles of unexamined grief.