Idol Hands

Annessa Y Morrison

Hope to Spur Conversations That Bridge People’s Differences Art can spark conversations among strangers and intimates alike. It can also help people to heal. Annessa has been painting full-time for eight years after discovering that viewing and creating art helped her heal from debilitating lupus and Fibromyalgia. Morrison’s Idol Hands were conceived as a call to action to find out what people have in common. “You can’t tell the race or gender of the hands [in the paintings], which was deliberate,” she says. “Race and gender are important but you have to guess them in the paintings. The models ranged in age from six to their seventies.” All of the images feature a cricket and other hidden objects. When is the last time we changed our thoughts to try and process information from a kinder and purer place than that caught up in the mass of everyday life? Are we too busy to see through the eyes of compassion? Can we see through the eyes of compassion with someone who does not believe exactly as we do?” healingthroughartrx@gmail.com; https://abstractannessa.com