Let Us Unite
Let Us Unite
12” x 12” x 3/4”
Original mixed media painting on canvas
Let Us Unite is one of the first paintings in a new series I’m calling “Text-tures.” It has been painted on a piece of canvas cloth with the edges frayed and then attached to a textured but unpainted stretched canvas. Strips of the cloth have been cut and folded down to reveal both the color painted on the reverse side and the back canvas seen through the openings. The folds of painted canvas display the words to a quote by the Indian poet, Rabindranath Tagore.
“Let us unite, not in spite of our differences, but through them. For differences can never be wiped away and life would be so much the poorer without them. Let all human races keep their own personalities, and yet come together, not in a uniformity that is dead, but in a Unity that is living.”
The stretched canvas is stapled in the back. It has been signed and dated on the side of the canvas.