Thursday, March 20, 2008

one woman's loss

this is Wendy, whose portrait i made today after listening to the story of losing her son...they found him dead in the bathroom this past december, a bag around his head and a can of computer dust-off cleaner at his side....i cannot even imagine how horrific that must have been...and portraits like these are never easy to make...i know this one has some problems, but there is something about it that just keeps growing on me the longer i look at it...i hope she likes it and feels it does her story justice...she said she's trying to reach out to area schools, hoping to alert more children to the dangers of inhalant abuse....she said she's tried to get several papers to listen to her story to no avail, which blows me away, because this is exactly (in my opinion) what newspapers are SUPPOSED to do - inform their community about the issues which are there....so, hopefully we've helped do just that today, and like she said of going through the emotional pain of speaking out about her son, if you educate just one person enough to save their life, it's worth it...this is when i love this job

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