How can the canvas be the loving awareness that holds struggle and joy and everything in between?

“This selection of recent listening drawings and paintings are sourced from dancing with the ocean, supporting people on zoom and seeing the inherent good in me, you and all people while conversing and painting at the Benchlands encampment for the unhoused. Vulnerable lines, washes and splats track that which is tender and softens that which over protects. The paint, pen, pencil and crayon lets something in me relax as I attend and befriend what may be difficult to face.”

Andrew Purchin is an interdisciplinary artist who practices painting, interactive art interventions and psychotherapy. He connects to his body as he creates at sites of devastation and celebration.

His new project: What’s Home? Creative Listening Across Differences will result in ten documentaries telling unique stories of how ten Santa Cruz-based artists collaborate with the housed and unhoused to make new art, music, dance and theater. See Whatshome.org