My image was inspired by my mother. My experience with her illness was life changing. I painted my most vivid memories of that vulnerable time. “Waiting Room” captures one moment when you are sitting and waiting in this strange room where time slows down and people come and go. I remembered my mother’s phrase, “Once a man twice a child.” With an illness at any age, you return to being a child and being cared for. I saw it in this room. My work also reflects an unexplainable fascination with the human form. I feel the need to expose their message. I can see it behind the eyes, the gesture, the being. Their message is honest and true.
-- Rozanne Hermelyn Di Silvestro