絵は助けてくれる Art Can Help Us

 「絵は助けてくれる」

今日描かせていただいた

年配の女性が言ってくれた言葉。

彼女はステンドグラスをやっているそうです。

若い頃、

どん底に落としてくれたのも絵なんですが

どん底から希望を見出し、

這い上がらせてくれたのも絵だ。

「絵は助けてくれる」

その言葉、信じます。

“Art Can Help Us”

“Art can help us.”

Those were the words of an elderly woman whose portrait I painted today.

She told me that she works with stained glass.

When I was young,

it was art that brought me down to rock bottom.

But it was also art that helped me find hope there

and gave me the strength to climb back up.

“Art can help us.”

I believe those words.