linocut; each 10×10″ (image 6×6″)

“Doves are an iconic symbol of peace and biblically used to represent God’s long-reaching presence, security, and promise of hope. They are small and delicate, but also resilient. The idea of justice within scripture treats every human with equal dignity and worth, treating all classes with the same love and respect. Do we always interpret justice as impartial? Does this impartiality provide us with peace?”

ARTIST BIO: As a mom of four children, an artist and an art teacher, Brenda Sosa thinks that finding time to make art can be challenging, so after 22 years of teaching art, she made the decision to focus on her own art making full time. As a visual artist, she delights in the ability to play and explore in a variety of different media and mixed media combinations and embraces failure as a necessary part of the creative process. Many of her images contain the human figure with its intention to tell a story like the words of a poem or a song filled with emotion.