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Who We Are , 1998
Acrylic on Canvas
48" x 60 "

Although this is a painting of the reflection on water, it is really a question which asks: who are we?  Humans; mass of bones and flesh, blood and water?  What does it mean?  Our lives are but a brief moment - joined and connected to all the earth around us, in this painting our ancestors, our lives and generations to come are a continual curve in transmigration. 

On the surface of water, light is constantly changing itself and the shapes connect with each other – our lives are like that.  We live this life, die, new people come in, old ones have been there, and we are all interconnected   Further, water is a living thing, but we humans dump pollutants into it without any regard to what impact it will have on the creatures that survive on those ecosystems; and in fact, what it will inevitably mean to ourselves in the end.  I don’t believe we have a right to take things from the earth or abuse it.  The earth is not ours. We don’t own it.  We are just guests here.

 

 
Christi Belcourt, P.O. Box 112, Whitefish Falls, Ontario, P0P 2H0, christi@thebreath.com