NAOMI GREEN
Tree Rings

2022
acrylic on canvas
61 x 51cm

I didn’t grow up learning about our culture. I think that was my grandparent’s way of protecting us and keeping us all together. Here, this severance from our culture is represented by two cut tree trunks – one for my mother’s family and one for my father’s, with the tree rings representing the endless generations of ancestors who came before us.