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Acrylic on canvas, Age 9 (2005)
 48" x 60"
SOLD (Private Collection)
 Prints Available

…I was inspired to paint all the races, but to find people of color where I lived was very hard. After a lot of prayer I met two black children whose story was so amazing that I wanted to paint it right away. There was a taboo in their small Madagascar tribe against saving the orphans. So after their parents died, the two-year-old brother was taking care of his three-month-old sister for over two months. When they were found, they were barely alive. I painted them older and healthier to create what their vision might have been during the three-month survival. The baby girl has noticed the help approaching and is gently caressing her exhausted brother to lift his head up.
After I invited the adoptive parents to look at the finished portrait, they were crying. Although I had painted five different backgrounds complete with deserts, animals, birds and prairies I decided to paint the waterfalls at the very end. Everybody including me was surprised at the painted waterfalls in the background, because I had not known that the orphans had been found in the only waterfall jungle in the Madagascar …

-Akiane


Found

Trading sap for water
we belong here
Above the waterfall locks -
our eyes.
Below them -
our white diamond tear

Around the cerulean blue nectar
our breath absorbs all the air.
We view what we ignore -
with mortal bows
the stream appears
so clear

We bind the x-rayed light,
ignoring the escape of nothingness
to clear the path
For us, the barefoot orphans,
granite sandals
are so hard to match

The braided wax of hearing
crowns the lost smile
to forgive,
and the shade of incense
stops at the edge
of the cliff

Losing the warbling life in a jungle,
our reflection drowns
our washed emotion,
And, as the breeze paints the ripe births,
we receive the sense
trained by its own motion

Then suddenly
without the mask or shield,
While our minds are conquered
by the strange command,
We meet a friend we yield,
and leave in faith our jungle land









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