Anna Núñez

When I was painting this piece, I took a lot of inspiration from Matthew 6:25-34 in the Bible. In the passage, Jesus uses analogies from nature to make clear to us how much God loves and cares for us - and how His love can cover our worries. He points to the birds first. He reminds us that they don’t plan ahead for their meals or store up their food, and yet God provides every meal for them, every day. Then he asks, “why do you worry about clothes?” and says, “Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.” And if God clothes the flowers, which are alive one day and withered the next, how much more will he clothe and care for his children? With loose marks and negative spaces, I want this work to communicate that it’s okay to release control and relax. To let tomorrow worry about itself. The green strokes are intended to emulate the long grass of a field, and the cream tones with pops of orange represent the lilies.