From Michelle Basic Hendry, in her recent newsletter.
Q: Why are there no people or animals in your paintings?
A: When there is a figure of another person or an animal in a painting, we are left to wonder about them and try to understand their point of view. We are observers instead of participants. By avoiding any other figures, I invite the viewer to put themselves into the painting, discover what I am discovering, relate to it on a more personal level. In particular, in the paintings of abandoned buildings, I want the person looking at the painting to write their own story in it, to where it becomes their place too.
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