As this painting has evolved, the title has changed from “Can We Listen” to “Can They Listen?”.  The finished color palette of the painting (at left) is so “white guys in business suits” that the figures are no longer “we”, but rather “them”.  The figures have now come to represent so many of the predominately white male U.S. senators currently in the news.

I did not set out with quite this plan, but I have been listening to the news, and thinking of the Senate Judiciary Committee members as I created the painting.  Some all the Republican Senators who will soon vote on Donald Trump’s poorly behaved Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, have climbed onto my “canvas”.