IMPRINT

ABOUT THE PAINTING: IMPRINT: Acrylic on canvas, 3 x 3 FT. Merriam-Webster defines IMPRINT as to fix indelibly or permanently. We have imprints all around us. We create imprints everyday, within our families, within our friendships, even the strangers whose paths we happen to cross. Imprints can be good or bad but they are much stronger than impressions people might consider they’ve left behind in their absence. Imprints are a little more than  what I say it all the time: a passing smile can change someone’s whole day. But, what if that smile pulled someone out of a chasm? You never know. A simple game with a child can inform that child’s sense of right and wrong as an adult. A grandma’s loving arms can wipe away all the bruises the world tried to give her granddaughter. Imprints are about what one leaves on another, but they’re also so much more. There are those that offer this soothing touch, where their imprints give balance to all your struggles. There are those that have an almost