III. Protect

Expressions Series

This 5-piece series came about because I needed an avenue to express the overpowering energies that I have been experiencing since the arrival oi baby Maia and more so since she came home after 52 days in the NICU, having been born at 29 weeks.

Indeed, it is a time to be grateful and to celebrate the arrival of my little bundle of joy … I AM grateful and truly happy that everything turned out just fine, however I thought it is important to also address the difficult side of caring for a new baby, especially a preemie. More so, it serves as a way to release the building energies within me, in the only way I am familiar with … thru art.


III. Protect

Unless one has had the experience of caring for a preemie, you'will never know the things preemie parents have to go thru for their babies. Protect addresses the natural instinct to protect, to keep the baby safe from harms way, for the health hazards and dangers to a preemie are very real. It also gives you a glimpse of how others might look at it as being paranoid or overly protective.

Protect is a piece of mixed media art measuring 5 x 7 inches and mounted on a 6.5 x 8.5 inch black frame. Protection comes in a dramatic form here, where the seedling in the bottle is cradled safely in barbwire. The background effect is one of an overgrown forest, dense and hidden, a place of isolation and in that, safety in paranoia proportions for the growing seedling.