Art for the healing of children of divorce 50% of proceeds go to Life Giving Wounds Ministry

From LifeGivingWounds.org:

“Let the children come to me, and do not prevent them; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” (Matthew 19:14)

Our new painting is a dialogue with modern art and in particular Picasso's masterpiece The Tragedy, which profoundly and deeply captures brokenness in family life. (See side-by-side comparison below.) One interpretation of Picasso's painting could be that the family is suffering the hardship of alienation, separation, or divorce within family life. However, Picasso never revealed what the particular tragedy is. Regardless, note how vividly Picasso captures the pain and loneliness of the child caught between his parents. Neither parent is looking at him and he wraps himself tightly in a heavy garment as if to comfort himself in this place of desolation. He is unseen and forgotten. There is much grief and the painting calls out to the darkness for a sign of hope.

Picasso’s Tragedy, currently on display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

Michael Corsini’s Let the Children of Divorce Come to Me, commissioned and copyrighted by Life-Giving Wounds. Currently looking for a permanent home to be viewed publicly.

In our new painting “Let the Children of Divorce Come to Me,” the parents are now not even facing in each other's direction, as in Picasso's painting, depicting a certain finality of their broken relationship through divorce. Yet the new painting does not just depict the pain, which still remains, but also hope for the children and the family.

In our new painting, it depicts Christ on the same beach as Picasso's Tragedy, yet Christ walks on the ocean water, stepping towards the child, who also takes a step toward him. Christ lovingly receives the child and gently lifts the child's head to meet his eyes. Without saying a word, Christ's gaze says to the child all that is needed for him to hear in his heart as a warm, gentle light is cast from Christ's wounded hand into the hand of the child, and then to his parents and beyond. The child's open hand is a gesture full of rich symbolism; one meaning can be that of openness, forgiveness, and love towards his parents. Likewise, the parents' expressions are full of various, diverse meanings; one of which can be that they are interested in what is happening with the child and are subtly drawn, almost mysteriously, into this healing and compassion between the child and Christ.

This art was born from many conversations over the years we have had with adult children of divorce processing and grieving their pain and experiencing their joy of healing together side-by-side in our ministry. We have learned through this ministry that we need tangible reminders of God's invisible love for us and we hope this art is one of those tangible means for all of us children of divorce. We pray this art makes children of divorce feel less invisible and more seen, and ultimately inspired, comforted, and healed in many ways we can't even anticipate through this artwork.