The Reluctant Goodbye
Artist: Claude Chapdelaine
Title: The Reluctant Goodbye
Year: 2014
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 24"x24" canvas
Frame: 1" wood, black lacquered
Price: $0
Status: Donated to a local organization in order to raise funds for post secondary scholarships.
I painted “The Reluctant Goodbye” a couple weeks ago in order to try to articulate in art form the sense of hopelessness or helplessness friends, family and community members must feel when a daughter, sister, mother, grandmother goes missing or is murdered.
The painting features a tired woman dressed in a red weathered down tattered dress who is laid lengthwise in an orange row boat. She is alone and without oars. Her face is pale and her hair is dishevelled. One of her arms is resting over the side of the boat as if she is either trying to call for help or is waving back to someone who pushed her away from the shore. As she drifts into darkness, she bids a reluctant goodbye to her loved ones.
“The Reluctant Goodbye” is an acrylic and latex painting on a 24”x24” canvas. The woman’s red dress is in respect to the Red Dress campaign for missing aboriginal women.
This painting is not meant to romanticize or lessen the pain of loss and grief but to further the discussion on this important demographic and social issue. I offered the painting to an organization so they may either auction or raffle it off to raise funds for a new Education scholarship that has been created in memory of all missing and murdered women in Canada. I'll let you know when it's made official.
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