2022

I made this portrait of a fellow artist, referencing a photo I'd taken of her years prior. I'd moved far away and she was on my mind. When she looks at this image, in photographic or painted form, she sees only her flaws. I see timeless beauty, and intensity in her eyes. Making this portrait made me understand her better in the context of our generation. Eve is often drowning, and, like many of us millennials, lost and floating through life, unsure of what we are supposed to do with it. Societal promises have been broken and the earth is dramatically changing before our eyes. We agonize over our lack of success while haunted by the thought that success is meaningless in a breaking world.