Artist's Statement/A Gesture My paintings are about hope.
They are about the need to share, the yearning to be understood, the search for similarities.
As the Votive Milagro, a small silver charm, is placed upon the altar with a prayer requesting a miracle to cure an ailing body, the body parts I hang are for the human spirit. Images melt into distressed surfaces indicating the spirit passing through time and the hardship it endures.

The image of the ear is a representation of God. We do not know what he looks like, but we know that he listens.

Caroline Corey Gladney-Hoddle