Far and Away

I visited my ailing sister in LA. Seeing her being so sick I feel helpless. In LA, I took my collage stuff out, didn't have a heart to finish the one I was working on before the trip, I started a new one. It's a foggy city view in Baghdad. I love the purplish gray sky, I used a dark green back ground; my mom's favorite color, it represent life and deep peace, I thought about trees, bare barks, only some leaves left dangling... I finished the piece before returning home.

Looking at in online, I named it "far and away" - a second later, I realized that's what I felt when I was in LA - the helpless feeling about life, about departure, yet there is always life and life to come. This is the first time I actually see my feelings in my work.