Switzerland

The title of my latest piece: PANGEA, the term given to the "supercontinent" that existed on this earth over 200 million years ago before breaking apart into the separate continents we have today.

This very large painting is composed of 28 expressionistic portraits of people in my life or the lives of those very close to me, all of whom were born in different countries around the world.

I believe there are more differences between people within one country than the differences of people from one country to the next. We have created the borders that exist today, and even with these borders we are all more connected than we choose to believe.

The countries of the people represented from Left to Right, Top to Bottom are as follows:

Korea, Japan, Argentina, Yemen,
Guatemala, Peru, Eritrea, Chile,
Vietnam, Canada, China, Croatia,
Austria, Turkey, Italy, Czech Republic,
Iran, Finland, The Philippines, Bulgaria,
Brazil, Zambia, Scotland, Rwanda,
Native American, Egypt, Switzerland, Russia.