African Likeness

Posted on August 11, 2021 by eric

Traveling for 7 weeks in Africa for a low quality reality TV show, I found a disappointing lack of likeness to my African American students. I thought I would feel a connection to their ancestry. Towards the end of the...Read More

Native American Portrait Study

Posted on August 11, 2021September 2, 2021 by eric

As Paul Papadonis, my high school art teacher, was teaching us how to draw portraits, I was becoming more and more fascinated with the people who were here before white settlers came and decimated their traditions, culture, and respect for...Read More

Saint Paul

Posted on August 11, 2021 by eric

This one is for Abouna Paul Girguis and his Egyptian Coptic congregation. A day or so before I met the Copts volunteering in refugee camps in Athens, I spent the day with a Pakistani torture victim whose body was riddled...Read More

Beast

Posted on August 11, 2021 by eric

I don’t want to remember Jamal Khashoggi this way, a giant brown recluse electricuting his innocent face, a Saudi Arabian sword at his neck, but it was all I saw for months after his murder. It symbolized everything the Trump...Read More