Kaleidoscope Moon For Children Gone To Soon Number - 3 Intensified

Title

Kaleidoscope Moon For Children Gone To Soon Number - 3 Intensified

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Aberjhani

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Mixed Media - Silk-featherbrush

Description

Kaleidoscope Moon for Children Gone to Soon Number - 3 Intensified (Silk-Featherbrush Number 18)

THE IMAGE ITSELF
Before coming up with a palette scheme or choosing a stylistic approach, I decided the format for "Kaleidoscope Moon for Children Gone to Soon Number 3" would be a square. The reason was to place a greater emphasis on the shifting phases and metaphysical qualities attributed to the moon itself within this series. However, once I settled on the square format with a Silk-Featherbrush background, the Kaleidoscope Moon itself began to dissolve and reform like a true kaleidoscope until the first evolved into several. Arguing with myself about only wanting a single orb did not work and I accepted the possibility that the work itself wanted to intensify its own purposes and my stated commitment to them. Each reflects a different vibrancy and pattern as if to ensure individual recognition of every child taken too soon.

THE STORY BEHIND THE SERIES
During the holiday season some years ago, I lost a niece and nephew to extreme violence and chose to honor their lives by naming a Christmas tree after them. It was my way of gifting them the joy of which they had been robbed. The new Kaleidoscope Moons Series is an extension of that tradition in honor of children lost to such violence around the world as we move forward into 2019. It is also an expression of standing in solidarity with families who have endured these losses as they adjust to something from which they are unlikely to ever fully recover. Therefore, in lieu of a Christmas tree, the Kaleidoscope Moons Series.

Specifically: The news out of Houston, Texas (USA) was particularly gruesome upon learning that 7-year-old Jazmine Barnes had been shot and killed while in a car with her family the morning before New Year's Eve. Her mother, LaPorsha Washington, was also shot but survived along with 3 other daughters. In my hometown of Savannah, Georgia, an up-and-coming 17-year-old rapper named Tyrese Carter and a 20-year-old named Jamar Davis Jr. were shot dead within 24 hours after the New Year got underway.

The family of one gun violence victim, former university student Rebecca Foley killed 6 years ago in Savannah, announced plans to fight back. They are suing, to the tune of $35 million, the owners of the apartment complex where Ms. Foley was killed for the "inadequate security" they feel contributed to her death.

Obviously art cannot bring back any of our loved ones lost to senseless violence. But for those who did not get their chance to establish mega-stardom and document their passage on this journey we call life, the Kaleidoscope Moons Series can testify on their behalf. It can proclaim they were here and their lives were as deserving of celebration and remembrance as anyone's.

Aberjhani
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January 9th, 2019

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