There’s a Pandemic Outside

January is typically a month of vast self-improvement and a time to change aspects of our lives that we’re displeased with. Notions of ‘New year- new you’ are all focussed on self-indulgent ideals of finding ultimate happiness and self-gratification. But it isn’t all about you.

It is in the midst of making all these new year's resolutions, we forget all the difficulties that remain present in the new year that demand our attention and urgent action. 2021 and the preceding years have been filled with certainly an unequal amount of pain, destruction and injustice. Even with the glimmering  moments of hope, we can’t forget how much work there is left to be done. If the last two years have been any indication, we are a long way from creating a just world. 

Hopefully this painting reminds you to make changes where it truly counts.