Unfinished
Desires
I chose to leave these things blank. I left out the details.This blankness comes from a quiet respect.
When you look at a man who suffers a life you do not know, it is a mistake to try and finish his story for him. That would be an arrogant thing to do.
I went into the impoverished villages on the border of Kenya and Tanzania. These paintings show how I sat with the local children, and how we put the color of the earth onto the canvas together.
But there were things I did not know how to paint.
In a place of such hunger, their dreams are large and sharp. They dream of a solid house that holds out the rain. They dream of a cow, of a home that stays together, and of the volunteers who came from far away.
I am an outsider.
So, where I do not understand, I choose to remain silent on the canvas.
