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‘The Chosen’: Artist Liz Lemon Swindle paints inspiring scenes of Jesus
There was a time when Liz Lemon Swindle was not interested in watching “The Chosen.” The artist’s son tried several times to get her to watch the faith-based television series featuring the life of Jesus Christ, but she always found an excuse to pacify him. “‘Sure I will,”’ Swindle said she told him, “not ever intending to watch it.” Finally, after much persistence by her son, Swindle agreed to see the first episode. One powerful scene touched her heart and suddenly she was hooked. Less than two years later, a 30-inch-by-40-inch original painting with a decorative frame that depicts Jesus and Mary Magdalene in a tender, heartfelt embrace is displayed…
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Artist Jayasri Burman paints the ‘resilient’ Ganga
In May well 2021, when images of hundreds of corpses floating in the river Ganga went viral, like several many others, artist Jayasri Burman was appalled. “It was an eerie experience,” states the Delhi-dependent artist. She adds, “Since no one is meant to touch the bodies of Covid patients, people who experienced no possibility and with entry to the river, threw them there with the hope that the river will enable them get moksha. The river did inevitably wash out the bodies. She is brave. She is getting abused but she is not expecting sympathy, she has the power to search just after alone.” It is this resolve and resilience…