The Water Would Not Stay in Our Eyes, 2025, oil on canvas, 48 x 20 in. / 121.92 x 50.8 cm.

The Water Would Not Stay in Our Eyes, Nancy C Jacques, 2025, oil on canvas, 48 x 20 in. / 121.92 x 50.8 cm.

Painted as part of a series on poverty and climate change migration, this woman represents those who have been forced in years past to migrate. Settled as part of new communities, once again they are threatened. Trials and suffering can cripple and hemorrhage a body and soul. What courage!