Acrylic paint, pencil, gold ink, and collage on paper, 30 x 78 inches. Commission for Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Charlotte R. Bloomberg Children’s Center, Baltimore.

The Five Sisters was inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid. Each work in the center is accompanied by a plaque explaining what inspired each artist to create the work on view and the plaque for this work reads: “Yet often, in the evening hours, the five sisters would twine their arms around each other, and rise to the surface, in a row.” This sentence is what inspired my collage, as I envisioned the tails of the five mermaids ascending to the ocean’s surface together.
Photograph by John Dean.


