My piece “Shelter” contemplates the impermanence of shelter in the current environment of climate change, political polarity and economic uncertainty - while shelter is traditionally something so many of us have taken (and do take) for granted. Add a strained infrastructure of loosely stitched together government and private agencies and we have a dangerous situation with a frayed safety net. In my piece, a structure has been partially submerged by the sea, while a thin lifeline is thrown towards it symbolized by a Red Cross. The arch shape offers some protection overhead, but will it hold? And if it does, the structure is still in the ocean.

Mixed media (acrylic and collage) on canvas