The Cost of Preservation
Acrylic on canvas
In The Cost of Preservation, Abraham Lincoln’s face becomes a place to consider that burden. Layers of gray and white emerge from a dark background, while marks trail downward through his shoulders.
I wanted the weight to show. The exhaustion, the resolve, the humanity beneath a face we recognize so easily. This painting asks what it costs to preserve something larger than ourselves, and how much of that cost remains invisible once history turns a person into a monument.
48 × 72 inches $5,184