Head Injury
Medium
Oil PaintMaterial
PaintingDescription
Head Injury, 2023, oil on panel, 50 x 40 cm
Price After Request
maya.s.sherman@gmail.com
Project Description: Maya’s work is heavily influenced by family and health. As a teenager, Maya helped take care of her grandmother. A botched surgery left her grandmother bedridden, leaving her with 3/4 of her skull and little ability to communicate. Every day, from ages 13-16, Maya kept her grandmother company, feeding her and massaging her hands. Despite the few words spoken between them, there was always unconditional love in the apartment. Most of Maya’s artwork is influenced by those three years: the shocking physical change in the powerful woman she once lived with, the helplessness of watching a loved one lose her skull and her ability to speak, write, eat, and walk. Maya’s work is a testament to the last three years of her grandmother’s life, as she begins to understand the impact that such loss has had on her definition of family and love.Try it!