Faces Not Forgotten CA Quilt #2, 2020, mixed media, 5 x 4 ft. / 60 x 48 in. abstract Expressionistic painting created from images

Expressionistic painting created from images captured on a spring hike in central Texas

The Persistence of Life

with a background of underwater images from a reef cemetery to the gods of the ocean

or vibrate

Faces Not Forgotten CA Quilt #2, 2020, mixed media, 5 x 4 ft. / 60 x 48 in. abstract Expressionistic painting created from imagesFaces Not Forgotten CA Quilt #2, Christine Ilewski, 2020, mixed media, 5 x 4 ft. 60 x 48 in. Faces Not Forgotten quilt of 8 portrait panels, symbolic of the 8 children, primarily black, who die each day in the U. S. from gun violence. The FNF quilt panels are created from digital images of the original portraits which are donated to comfort the victims families.