This piece was created as an assignment for the 1st semester of the Master of Arts: Art Therapy program at Saint Mary of the Woods College. It was created to reflect the style of Art Therapist Cliff Joseph.
It is a collaborative piece created with my family in response to the arson my parents experienced during the summer of 2013. While my parents were vacationing in Alaska, a criminal broke into their home, stole their car, and burned their home to cover the evidence. This piece reflects the family unity and support for my parents as they recover from this senseless, destructive, life changing, and violating crime.
The piece is called "The Path of Least Resistance" which is how the path fire chooses was described to me by a Fire Marshall at the scene of the crime. He described fire as flowing like water. For the background of the image, I dropped india ink onto wet paper to replicate the flowing quality of the fire. I also used gray chalks to combine with the wet ink as a metaphor for smoke and fire damage.
Each family member created their own personal figure out of collage materials. These were placed on top of the destruction, and linked together to represent our unity.
