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Robert Fields, "UNDERSTAND."  2019. 24 H x 13 W x 2-1/4 D inches. Acrylic and lacquer paint, ink, graphite and adhesive tape on corrugated, paper board with wood & twine. Contemporary Ab-Ex artwork. Calling-out: Be a force for good. Empathize.
UNDERSTAND
Acrylic and lacquer paint, ink, graphite and adhesive tape on corrugated paper board box with wood & twine.
24 H x 13 W x 2-1/4 D inches.
2019

Really? Do we? How can we? As intentionally as we may try to empathize with the distress of the immigrant, the otherwise disenfranchised… the urban homeless, the ethics of witnessing demands that we must acknowledge the incommensurability of understanding the other’s experience. Perhaps better, a more appropriate response would be to say: “I will never understand what you went through.”