Etherized Pieta

“The painting depicts Boston’s Ether Monument against the city skyline and is inspired by the first few lines of T.S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. I run by this statue in the park every day, but in five years I never met a Bostonian who knows its significance. I wanted to capture the wonder and relief of anesthesia, an invention that changed the patient experience so profoundly it was memorialized by the city. Gazing out Boston from Walnut Hill, I see the possibilities illuminated below me, and I wonder how future discoveries offer relief.”