If Love Were a Tapestry
Emerging from a background of chaos, we all speak the language of Love.
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‘Home is Where The Hatred Is
‘Home Is Where The Hated Is’ is a mixed media creation from my series titled “America Goddamn”, which depicts personal observations. feelings and political thoughts on the polarization of society amongst the races, creeds and the have/have nots of our dystopianesque society.
Wrench in the Gears
Through the juxtaposition of a delicate, mesh hand with a sharp, imposing metal shard embedded in or extracted from industrial gears, “Wrench in the Gears” captures the complexity of transformational struggle and the ambiguous ascent towards resolution. The tension is palpable: Is the hand driving the shard in thus sabotaging the mechanism, embodying disruption and confrontation? Or is it gently attempting to extract the obstruction, symbolizing effort toward mending and progress?
This duality situates the work firmly in the emotional in-between: the act of intervention can be both destructive and restorative. The emptiness between hand and gear is charged with ambivalence; the scene hovers between despair and hope, echoing how change rarely unfolds in a single, clear direction. Transformation, as rendered here, is messy and fraught, met with hesitation and force, resolution may involve recognizing our own role in halting or healing progress.
“Wrench in the Gears” turns the moment of interference into the story itself where systems, relationships, or individuals confront breakdown and the possibility of repair. The work embodies that the profound current of depolarization and transformation are lived, not declared, and the struggle to cross the divide is always layered with uncertainty and opportunity.
Birmingham and beyond
This work (oil painting) depicts a celebration of love over hate.
“IMMOTUS (Unmoved)”
“IMMOTUS (Unmoved)”
60” x 48” oil on canvas
2023 Brooks Anderson
I used to get lessons from Nature in times of upheaval and dread in my life – as a kid, and even more so now. Nature not only bats last, but has profound lessons and meditation, to perhaps allow us to remember who we are in the grand scheme of things. We are unmoved — by fear, intimidation, and ignorance if we permit this teaching. The piece also brings a multilayered dialogue of the elements of water and earth. It’s a dance, really, with all that is sacred around us.