The Question:

Who helps and who exploits the poor?

Title:

Realize the task -

Actualization/Identifying Causes

Emotional Reality:

Hopelessness

Overwhelmed

Sense of Rock Bottom

This painting visually communicates the chaos resulting from the limited availability of resources by layering and concealing the deficient resources behind the surface.  This technique works to suggest that there is more to the issue than meets the eye. The icons represent a scenario of what someone who is poor in the US often lives without.- childcare assistance, food, financial security, healthcare options, opportunity for competitive education, transportation, telephone, secure shelter, and utilities. The knotted up text graphic represents the misunderstood causes and the seemingly endless crisis.