Agent Orange Offspring
18x24"
Acrylic and Stitch on Canvas
 
This piece fractures the child’s perspective across multiple moments, clarified by the quiet authority of the two surrounding nurses. Positioned at the margins of the composition, they hover between care and control, tasked with tending to damage they did not cause and cannot undo.
 
The dominant face in the foreground remains enlarged and vigilant, its wide eye searching for explanation.
 
Rendered in heated reds and yellows, the painting binds flesh to environment. By including the nurses, the piece expands its focus beyond individual suffering to those designed to help, yet powerless to restore what was taken.