Artist: Maddie Baker
Title: Moved
Medium: Mixed media
Size: 10x10"
 
 
When I originally sketched out ideas for this painting, they were all of someone running or in motion, because I was thinking about movement. But the line came to me again and again, “I’m moved by you…not in the way that I thought I’d move.” That felt to me like a moment of humility, a moment when we realize we needed something different than we thought we needed to keep going forward. The next time I drew, I drew a woman on a ground, still in a dynamic position but this time reaching up, ready to be moved by that divine force that helps us when we’re down, and see’s the way we could move, could be, our most beautiful potential. 
The colors I knew from the start, intuitively. I couldn’t say why exactly, except perhaps these are the colors that the song felt to me. Bold and energetic, but also sincere and tender.