“I SEE YOU BUT DO YOU SEE ME?” Maxine by Marc Clamage:
Since my last post on bearing witness, I discovered another blogger who refuses to turn away by painting panhandlers he sees in Boston Harvard Square near his workplace.
Meet artist Marc Clamage.
He writes: “I used to hurry by them, but then I began to stop. Each face tells a story, I realized, and I would try to capture as many as I could through a series of oil paintings.”
“Rosie and David” and pet guinea pig, by Marc Clamage
He’d noticed that there were more than usual, “younger, and more troubled,” and sometimes, even whole families begging on the streets.
Many of the people he encounters were simple passing through, and using panhandling as a way to supplement a low-wage job, or help pay the rent.
Others were homeless, and panhandling was their only source of…
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