Paws & Curls
Artworks
- Time to Play
- Child Feeding Her Pets
- Only a Shower
- Milk for the Kittens
- Once Bitten, Twice Shy
- Feeding New Friends
- The Hiding Place
About This Issue
Paws & Curls explores the quiet, formative moments where care first takes shape.
Across these paintings, we find girls learning tenderness not through instruction, but through closeness — feeding, waiting, playing, protecting. The animals beside them are not props or symbols alone, but participants in small, shared worlds where trust grows naturally.
These scenes are gentle by nature. Nothing dramatic unfolds. Yet within these everyday exchanges lies something lasting: the discovery that affection carries responsibility, and that being needed can feel both joyful and serious at once. The bond between child and pet becomes a space where patience, humor, and devotion quietly meet.
emotional weight of his work to speak clearly, without distraction.
These paintings remind us that compassion does not arrive fully formed.
It begins early, in small acts that feel ordinary at the time — a bowl set down, a hand held still, a moment of waiting shared.
In a world that often rushes past such gestures, Paws & Curls asks us to slow down and notice them again. To remember how empathy is learned through proximity, how responsibility can feel tender rather than heavy, and how love often reveals itself in the simplest relationships we ever have.
This issue is not about nostalgia.
It is about recognition — of where care begins, and why it stays with us long after childhood has passed.