For the past two decades, Sondra Rosenberg has worked as an art therapist, guiding women through a process of finding visual language for their inner worlds. Her own art practice has been deeply influenced by that approach to creating images. She uses whatever mediums best enable her to capture specific feelings and ideas. These two mixed media paintings – Neglect and Grief – make use of discarded objects, covered over in their respective colors. The objects were once valuable – purchased or gifted, wanted and played with, worn/used – but now discarded, forgotten about, broken, or left behind. Beneath the weight of this detritus and debris, the eyes seek contact and recognition.