Petrified, 2022, acrylic on canvas, 30 x 24 in. / 76.2 x 60.96 cm.

Petrified, Shanoor Devarj, 2022, acrylic on canvas, 30 x 24 in. / 76.2 x 60.96 cm.

Humanity is constantly saturated with bad news. It is far too easy to allow the never ending cycle of tragedy, pain and suffering to overwhelm us and force us to shut down to what’s happening all around us. Yet we can not heal nor affect positive change by giving into the urge to become apathetic.