Through the Ages

by Steve Henderson

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11.000 x 14.000 inches

Title

Through the Ages

Artist

Steve Henderson

Medium

Painting - Pen On Paper

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Little girl. Young woman. Middle aged. Elder.

Life, when it is lived normally, consists of being born, growing up, growing older, and eventually leaving this existence for another. In that time we do many things, from the play and pretend of childhood to the many responsibilities of the adult.

And again, when life is normal and good, we live it as free people, as much as we possibly can – not confined by walls, managed by strangers, ruled by despots, told what we must wear and how we can think and who we can be with and even how close we can stand to one another. Oppression takes many forms.

Because we are humans, living with humans, we always battle against those who would have more by taking from those who wind up having less.

But the essential is this: we are each of us precious and unique, because that is what a human is. There is no “lesser” human nor “superior” one, no justifiable system of classes and castes, whether those systems are religious, economic, educational, social, political, and, nowadays, medical.

The artwork, Through the Ages, celebrates our lives as people, as represented through the eyes of Native American women of North America from not that long ago. The Ages are not only the specific ages of individual lives – child, young woman, middle aged, elder – but the ages of history itself, as cultures come and go, wax and wane, grow and thrive, or die through being squashed out by another.

There is no one culture that is “lesser,” nor one that is “superior,” based on no more than religious, economic, educational, social or political paradigms and propaganda. In the same way that children learn from adults and adults learn from children, cultures can learn from one another, when respect and dignity is accorded to each.

Respect and dignity. Through the Ages it is a challenge – for individuals, for cultures – to give and receive these, to one another and from one another.

Featured on 22 Fine Art America groups, including 100 Favorite.

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April 13th, 2021

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