New OMNI Painting by Jane Vance
Artist Jane Lillian Vance has created another OMNI inspired painting. Here’s a sneak peak at some work-in-progress details of the new painting. Check back on the 26th for the full image.
Jane Vance releases Visions of Sugarplums in conjunction with January 26, 2012, to mark the second anniversary of the discovery of her murdered Virginia Tech student, Morgan Harrington‘s, remains, on January 26, 2010.
If she had lived, Morgan would have traveled with her mother, Gil Harrington, with Karen ReMine’s indefatigable Orphan Medical Network International (OMNI) team, to meet these Zambian children. Now, in Ndola, Africa, the new Morgan Harrington Educational Wing shelters, feeds, educates, and inspires these children, in Morgan’s honor. Those children will become the leaders of their country. They will help to point their generation toward the great freedom of beautiful choices.
Vance thanks Gil Harrington and Karen ReMine for the use of photographs and for the inspiring conversations and ideas that led to this painting. May we all exercise our choice to extend our resources, and may we bridge to those in such need that they were not expecting us.
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Dear OMNI Family,
I love this painting as a visual and also because I know many of the stories behind the images it contains. Remember with me, our patient Patric, a young boy, at the urban clinic site of McKenzie. Actually, Patric did not come to the OMNI clinic. He was unable to leave his family’s hut because of the end stage ravages of his leprosy, and fear of reprisals from the community if they knew his diagnosis. Patric’s family came to the OMNI clinic and asked for assistance and Dr. Henry Maicki, our medical director, gathered supplies and went into the McKenzi ghetto to care for Pataric. It was clear that Patric was moribund, but Dr. Henry administered what aid, and comfort, and prayers, he could to aleviate Patric’s suffering. Upon leaving, Dr. Henry asked what Patric wished for and the young boy said “an orange please”. One orange. It takes so very little at times to help and deliver compassion. The humility of this request from a dying boy still brings tears to Dr. Henry’s eyes today. You can be sure that the next day, Dr. Henry was at Patric’s home with a basket of oranges and more. Our patient Patric died shortly thereafter. Please know that the orange in “Visions of Sugarplums” is Patric’s orange. He mattered.
Always,
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Gil Harrington