Mixed Media Abstract Painting on Museum-Grade Canvas
30” x 30” x 2.25”
Created by InterArtist Jen Haefeli
WildRootCreations®
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True Colors shine through, right? This is the adage. We say that a person reveals their inner-most truths to us through truest colors. These colors are a form of welcoming, and warning, a karmic promise. Let these true colors be a promise of hope that there will be renewal for our melanated and immigrants who live on stolen land, that amid the scourge of harm in this time of reaping and clawing, that we all live in a country that is indeed a tapestry, and a melting pot of cultures, infused by a culmination of peoples. Some who have criss-crossed this globe due to privilege and leisure.

We have seen a systematic change take place. A deliberate dismantling of our systems, disrupting the core of what we know to be democracy. The piping white-hot hatred billowing into an echo chamber, rallying to spread a theme of homogenization from a borrowed, shame-filled pulpit with an ever-shifting position, is sitting on a seismic tectonic plate, and it will erupt.

We cannot allow each individual to be lost, taken, and systematically erased from our communities. We are our communities. As we watch with our fists balled, and our teeth clinched, yelling at our representatives to fight for the injustices to cease, we have seen scores of beauty seemingly evaporate from our population. The names of every person disappeared without due process, sent to CECOT prison is layered within this piece. They are not forgotten. They are U.S.

We, those who are fighting for OUR rights, citizens or not, have a right to Due Process. We are here. We know the names of those who have disappeared. We respect humanity.

We, those who are fighting for OUR rights, citizens or not, have a right to Due Process. We are here. We know the names of those who have disappeared. We respect humanity.

We matter.

We are better than this. This is not who we are. This is not who we want to be. We the people of the United States of America - KNOW OUR RIGHTS. You will not change who we are.

The word “breathe” is repeated in large text amid the smaller font across the abstracted, disappearing heart, and throughout this panel, to remind the viewer to take the time for self care during the pelting we are experiencing. Take shelter and take care making good trouble in the fight for our home turf.