Entitled Border Crossing, the paintings merge the worlds of animals and human politics, reflecting on the policies of child separation, borders, and immigration.
“I made Into the Dark in response to the horror of the policy of separating children from their parents at the U.S. border,” Ericson reveals. “Often when I work, I get lost in the technical aspects of painting—the color, seeing the image take shape brushstroke by brushstroke—but this subject matter was a little raw for me and I felt emotional about it all the way through.”
See more of Ericson’s work on her website and Instagram.
Ericson’s work merges themes of animal migration in the wild with human migration and the refugee crisis. – My Modern Met
