“Midnight in the Garden”

 

“Midnight in the Garden”
Copyright Susan Brubaker Knapp 2025
56" x 48"

The decision to bear children was, for me, partly a decision that humanity was worth continuing. These days, I’m not so sure. As a mother, I yearn for my children – all children – to live in a world of beauty and peace (represented by the flowers at the bottom). But our world is filled with horrors, too. Wars and genocide; government corruption; the influence of neo-Nazis and white supremacists; degradation of civil rights, human rights, women’s rights and voting rights; school shootings; poisoning of our water, air and land; and environmental catastrophes brought on by man-made climate change. What will we choose for our children and their descendants as the clock strikes midnight?

White cotton fabric, acrylic textile paint. Wholecloth painted with collaged painted elements, free-motion machine quilted.