Artist: Carly White
Title: Symbiotic Suffering, Symbiotic Growth
Medium: Oil and Acrylic on board
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Artist Statement: One's body is healing from being pushed through the birth canal while the other's is healing from pushing. One has blistered lips while the other has blistered breasts. One starves in the night from a growing body while the other starves from producing milk. both experience sleeplessness from being born and being born again. Through this symbiotic suffering, they grow together as one, often under a quiet, and sometimes lonely moon.
Artist Bio: Carly White is an artist from. Las Vegas especially interested in the intersection of the human figure and the human spirit. She attempts to paint Telestial subjects with what she often calls, "celestial colors" in hopes of merging the two worlds. Her husband is her biggest supporter. When she offered to stop art for a time to take care of their baby, he said, “No. Absolutely not. You have a legacy to create.” And so she is endeavoring to create that legacy one babysitter and microwaved burrito at a time.