THE LEAVING by artist Jen Starling

Mixed media on panel, 10” x 10” (25.4 cm x 25.4 cm)

Home can be a place that pulls us toward comfort and familiarity, or it can make us want to runaway wild and free. Leaving home is filled with the potential of great things, yet tinged with a sadness for what was. Thoughts of home exemplify our mystifying ability to feel multiple emotions at one time.