INFORMED BY THE BOOK,the same sky by Amanda Eyre Ward

These artworks are informed by literature about women who have suffered trauma and their hope to survive.They range in size, from very small squares of 5" to diptychs and triptychs,12" x 12" to 15"x4", mixed media on canvas boxes.They place to focus on emotional mark making and color.

"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."
Hans Hoffman.
These artworks embrace this attitude.

under a brilliant sky,diptych,acrylic paint on canvas

the sunlight streamed through,5x5,on canvas box

tangled in panic's undertow

erase my eyes

the wonderful silence you can hear

the  march sky was rosy at dusk#1

the March sky was rosy at dusk#2

a great cry came from within

floating away

she felt blue and ruined

the sound of broken glass

of being a girl with scars

letting a scream out

the sound comes low like the buzzing of bees

she was the yellow girl

she was damaged and hidden

it was nearly black in the road

my eyes can see in all directions

About Whiteness

heart break in her eyes

she had set herself on fire

the moon was blue and filled with tears

before the darkness

about my sister

the story of my scars

the hole she called a window

the sun is rising

I fell into the every hope

only she was quiet