It was the middle of the 2020 Pandemic and the drought and wildfires and general tumult were anything but helpful to my mental health, which was already reeling from the isolation and inability to come closer than six feet to anybody other than those in one's immediate household. I missed my friends and family.
I saw a picture of two men hugging and I wanted to combine with with a natural scene, especially in depicting water and earth reunited; in the middle of the drought, climate change, self-imposed celibacy, and general tumult, all of those factors have inspired scenes like this for me.
My mother has often encouraged me to depict what I want to see in the world, not just what is going badly but something aspirational.
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