Between Two (11x14")

Acrylic on linen. Signed and dated on back by Julia. This piece was sold in an Art Auction Benefit, where 50% of the proceeds were donated to No Kid Hungry for COVID-19 Relief in April 2020.   This piece has dark indigo, blushing desert sand tones, and cream, with two totems hanging in the balance facing one another. It has a romantic feeling, wondering when there will be a joining, almost the tenderness of an evening dance. When I created the West series, I was living in a small Brooklyn apartment. I was reflecting back on the past decade I lived with my partner in California, first San Francisco with its cool ocean breezes then LA with its glorious sunlight. And coming into a sort of settling down and calming after the abruptness of the previous year that we took to live in Mexico and Vietnam. We kept moving to warmer and hotter places, more sun, more heat. I was seeking balance, interconnection. After all of these nomadic moves, we had been moving to a new home every year, for a de