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SAMUEL DUNSON
artist
educator
Coping Mechanisms: Allowing the Past to Soothe My Future
Coping Mechanisms: Letting the Past Sooth my Future, is a series of paintings, drawings and sculptures that have helped me deal with the inevitable – ‘I’m getting older.’” Though I have recognized this for many years, it has never been so evident as to the day I turned 40. Children have always been allowed to play with toys to relieve stresses and understand the world around them. In these works I am attempted to use playful imagery to deal with adult themes in hopes to find mechanisms to cope issues that come with age
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