M. Paige Schrock - The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet ft. Cameron Holifield (2025)

18x24 Mixed Media on Canvas 

Was that what was so painful: that nobody had ever come
so close to me – nobody had ever seen me, and come right
up to me, and kept going, and looked into my eyes so
seriously, with so little fear?
-Elif Batuman, Either/Or