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Immigrant
9 x 12 Pastel
Reference: A photograph of a man who came from Samoa and spent two years in an Australian camp for people waiting for an entry visa. 

Woman With A Red Scarf
12 x 9 Pastel

Snow Removal
As we watch the temperatures slide down into single digits and the snow accumulation pile up, I get the impression that any groundhog ignorant enough to poke his head out cannot be a trustworthy predictor of weather.

Dessert:
Apple Pie with rum, walnuts, raisins, a dutch crumb topping, and a caramel sauce swizzle. Need I say more?

Movie
Women Talking is a film based on an actual event in Bolivia. The script was made from a book by the same name, written by Miriam Toews. The film opens with a massive rape rampage carried out by members of a religious cult on their own women.
The women of this group gather in a barn to decide if they will leave the cult and risk finding their place in heaven or stay and submit to the men that raped them and those that permit the rapists to remain in the cult and receive no penalty for their actions.
The conversations and actions of these women are heartbreaking. Even more so since their experience reflects what happens to women worldwide every day.
We not only see it as a weapon of war, such as in Syria and Ukraine. Women also experience it perpetrated by men exercising their positions in the workplace.
This is the kind of movie I would like to see again. It would be instructive to concentrate on the conversation these women had rather than lingering with the possibility of what they might do and what the reaction might be.

Authentic Foreign Food
Here's a dilemma I discussed with a friend recently. We had our dinner at a Mexican Restaurant. Is the food Americanized, or is it authentic? You name the cuisine, be it Chinese, Italian, Thai, or French; it will likely be different from if consumed in the home country.
Often the difference is the need for authentic ingredients. But just as often, once we have established our taste for any of these dishes and if we enjoy them, that dish is our standard for future comparison. I have often been told that what we think is authentic food is not recognizable in our home country.
The dilemma comes when we care less if it's authentic as much as we enjoy it.

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Fashion 
9 x 12 Pastel on Paper
My inspiration for this was a Photo on Instagram from the Edessa School Of Fashion. I have sketched many of their models with the creations they come up with.





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