painter

“A lot of the expression in my work comes from the isolation of motherhood. […] I’m bearing witness and I have a real desire to give those moments the same type of importance as a presidential portrait or a great war battle.”—Lupita Carrasco, in our interview on caregiving and creation.

The white of a canvas invites color, to the extent that white doesn’t appear so much as a color as it does a sign of incompleteness. It serves so well as a starting point that it’s hard to remember that white is even a color. Yet, it is a color. Many, in fact.