Mixed Media on wood, ready to hang.
Signed on the front.
I chose this pose of Ruth as I felt it personifies her acceptance of life’s meaning. Emerging from the canvas like coming out from a dense fog - which is a term depressed people often use to describe their experience. She seems remote as if distancing herself from the audience, not looking directly at life but providing an aside glance. By not focusing on reality is how she dealt with support for a depressed partner. For the long term mentally unwell depression can be a blurred vision of life and meaning.