Beau's Crayons #2

This painting comes from a series named Beau’s Play, where I explore my son’s creations with my own. Far before we become adults, we tend to lose the act of play. When becoming a parent, we have to rediscover play with our children. It is frightening to bring up a child in an uncertain and often dark world, and the future of this world benefits from this discovery of play. Children create a mess when they are in the depths of discovery, but there is beauty in the chaos of the creative, unlike the chaos of the world. Creative chaos from play is the antidote to the entropy of the modern world. –Artist statement