The Thinnest Thread of Light

<p>Anyone familiar with the work of Vancouver&rsquo;s Rodney DeCroo will know how trauma informs his art. The son of a violent and PTSD-ridden Vietnam War veteran, DeCroo spent his childhood moving from Pennsylvania to the gloomy rough-and-tumble towns of British Columbia and back again, accruing the damage, both physical and psychological, that comes from abuse.</p> <p>Victorian writer and art critic John Ruskin claimed that art has two goals: &ldquo;to make sense of pain and to fathom the sources of beauty.&rdquo;</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/write-and-review/the-thinnest-thread-of-light-c33ea9c9b0d4"><strong>Read More</strong></a></p>