The Call

Harris Martinson, a graduate student studying Painting at Miami University, created a large and detailed painting titled The Call. Part of a larger project, The Call seeks to work against alienation and toward reconciliation.

Martinson explains that the child in the painting is “caught with an awareness, a charge, that manifests as a moment of tension between the world she inhabits and our own world.” The subject is uncertain of her path, yet present in her surroundings. The painting and its larger project “emerges from a personal task of reconciliation between the artist and the world.”