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2024, "Respite: The Moments In Between"
The photograph has a profound feeling of sacrifice and leisure in a desperate time. As the grandmother sits while the young woman washes her feet, a pair of crutches indicating the grandmother’s ailing body and the uncomfortable crouched position of her granddaughter provide a deeper understanding of the love shared between these women, and how valuable this rest and care is for the grandmother. This work’s setting in a refugee camp highlights the potential danger these women are facing and the perilous situation in which respite becomes even more highly prized.
Text by Haven Simnitt, Washburn student