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.
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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.
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