Art in Community among the Poor

This is an oil painting done on a canvas shirt. One morning I showed up at our community drop in center and their was a ball point pen drawing on the table on a big piece of paper. I was awestruck and started copying the drawing in my sketchbook and asked who had done it. I found out it was done the day before by a god friend of ours who lives on the streets. This part of the drawing was his 'house' complete with a pot with salomi and bread stuck in it. He had written in Romania, 'door' by the door and 'house' up by the shelves on the wall. Later that year I had a show of my oil paintings and a series of his drawings.


Here is the image from my sketch book. his design elements found in al the would be oopen spaces appeared in my paintings after this point.