Acrylic on canvas board, 9 x 12 inches.  My motivation for this painting was the crisis that is happening on the U.S/Mexico border in which thousands of families, especially women with their children, and children alone seeking asylum.  In my research on this situation, over 80 percent of women from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico who were screened on arrival at the U.S. border “were found to have a significant possibility of establishing eligibility for asylum or protection under the Convention against Torture.”  Yet, because of the zero tolerance policy enacted by the current administration, thousands of people from Central America have been put at risk, and enduring the awful tragedy of separating children from their parents.

This painting shows a woman holding her child standing next to an US Border Control vehicle.  I do not know what happened to mother and child.