Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Holding My Baby

Holding My Baby
Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
16" x 20"
Prints available on Fine Art America

In silence we must wrap much of our life,
because it is too fine for speech.
-Emerson

This is one of several paintings I just did of my daughter and I when she was an infant.  Because she was jaundiced and born early she had therapy from a biliblanket.  The glow of it was ethereal somehow and I remember feeling scared for her health.  A quiet silence filled the space as we held our breath and she started growing.


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