Haunted Remembrance II

From the Artist: COVID-19 and the Presidential election have profoundly changed our lives. I use an iPad to create digital abstract expressionism. I studied Art History at Cornell University. I gravitated to the Abstract Expressionist artists. My artwork is an expression of my subconscious. Faith and hope are sustained by leveraging the creative side of my brain. Art and music are part of my family history. My grandfather owned two music stores in Latvia. My father escaped the Nazis by coming to America in 1939 to see the New York World's Fair. My mother survived the Nazi occupation in the Riga ghetto along with her 2 brothers. They survived by singing for the Nazis who would protect them because they entertained the Nazis. Only 1 in 10 Latvian Jews survived the horror of the Holocaust. I consider myself a Latvian Unicorn. I channeled my sorrow about the Holocaust into the creation of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.. I was the only child of a Holocaust survivor on the President's Commission on the Holocaust and the first U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council created during the Carter administration. I believe that experience shaped my life in so many ways. The conditions of a pandemic that arbitrarily spreads a virus reminds me of the Holocaust and how much luck factors into survival. My abstract art captures my life, particularly when stress becomes more prevalent. We all require self care and creative projects give meaning to our lives in this unprecedented time.