These are my stars for Jillian Curtis' star project. The stars are to teach her children about the Holocaust through compassion and acceptance. It's a huge project. This is the sort of the thing I find very difficult to approach in pictures. I find it hard to be very serious and a subject like this demands gravity and sincerity. I looked to other artists who do similar subjects for inspiration, especially Maurice Sendak and Kathe Kollwitz. I wanted to evoke a sense of rememberance and hope.
