By Samantha Wortelhock
Painting and Giclee Limited Edition Size: 800 x 1000 (32" x 40")

The Human Race
Adam stood under the tree and said, "What happened to our Garden;
Was it something we did?"

"I'm not sure", replied Eve, "but this time let's share our fruit".

And in a bountiful World, there's a race against time and Man wants to
win. Whatever the cost.

"There's only so much to go around!", warns a mother who with her
hungry child watches to see who wins the race...one she is not running
but feels she is destined to lose.

Man, in his competitive world, cannot see her, he cannot even feel her
but he must own her pain because they are One and his choices help
create her fall or her fun. His hurdle awaits him over the finished line,
perhaps then he'll confront the truth he left behind.

And the animals run a race that they don't understand because they
exist as one part of one whole in a world where winners and losers
aren't real. The gorilla speaks out "We see only what is, we don't ask
"what can / be?", "we don't question our life", says the panda. We
don't ask, "What's in it for me?". The tortoise looks up and says,
"Just let it be...the future is there for us all to see, eventually!"

And as our audience applauds that our man is winning, blind as they
are to the nonsense in that, for our losers are generally the wisest
amongst us. They have suffered to see the value in all that we have.

Our original thinkers dig holes and plant trees in living memory of
animals gone. "Our actions acknowledge the imaginations we have to
create a world which is loved"
" which is held"
" one of fun."

And in a stadium which once bore the forest, the seeds of all life, The
Garden, our home

Where termites live in a world of connection, cooperating and raising their children as one.
Their flag shows not division, but one home we cannot own.
Can we share with them that fact?
Then gone will be the fight.
And we will share once again a Garden of Light.

The Story Behind the Painting
A powerful depiction of the evolution of the world with man racing ahead to win at any cost. The poem says everything there is to say about this painting. Sam completed The Human Race soon after the birth of her first son, Seth. The painting has had a profound affect on it’s audience and the words often bring people to tears. The painting is about truth, owning that truth and working to change ourselves so we can have a world for our children.