The Faces We Choose

Original: 16″x20″, $400

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The Mannequin Series

Oil on decoupage of John Milton (Harvard Classics Original)

“I once saw a mother flick her toddler on the cheek for crying. ‘You need to be cheerful,’ she explained. For years I wrestled with the complexity of this matter. Could parents actually discipline children to only be cheerful? How much external stimuli needs to be challenged or retrained, and how much are we allowed to feel in real time as we experience it? In other words, we aren’t to believe everything we think, and there is wisdom in not giving in to emotions. Yet, that is what makes us human—feeling emotions brought about by things we experience.”