Kinship
Scarlett Oslapas
- Country
- Born 1990, California; residing Utah
- Dimensions
- 48 x 24 x 1.5 In.
- Medium
- Oil
A mother, connected to her two small children, reaches up. Her friend, holding the hand of another toddler, reaches down. Oslapas remembers her early days of motherhood when her friend Olivia, also in the throes of mothering a newborn baby, connected through a late-night text. The artist notes, “We both reach up from our parallel perspectives and find light.”
“Knowing I had a friend thinking of me, and who understood I was in a sea of exhaustion and joy, helped me float even when I felt isolated.”