Art-9 | Gallery: Kindness, Trust, Inclusion | Healing HeARTS | Art on Campus | UC Davis Health

I created this collage on Christmas Day, 2021. It was the second year in a row that the members of my extended family were not gathering as a group due to COVID-19. It had been a tough year; most of us didn’t feel like celebrating anyway. On the night we would normally have met as a large, extended family, a few of us quietly made collages instead, a favorite of my late grandfather. We shared in the trust that 2022 would bring moments of joy, and that our family would end up stronger because of what we had gone through. To me, this art piece represents ‘trust,’ not just in the people around me, but that the process of life will ultimately work out on the end. —Sarah Spivack

Creating art is a way I have learned to be kind to myself. It lets me solve something beautiful from tumultuous feelings.—Anita Savell

This painting was inspired by our web picture and a still from the movie ‘Antebellum.’ I wanted to show child’s trust in the people caring for her, the kindness of the doctors and nurses reassuring her, and a little of the inclusion I see in the faces around us. I was a patient here myself recently, and I know how it feels to be scared and ask, ‘Will I be all right?’ (I am, thank you!)—Laurel Beckett

This photo represents the value of trust. It depicts several couples viewing the bridge together on benches and represents the trust between partners and the journeys they go through together in relationships, regardless of the challenges faced during the course of their relationships.—Martina Thomas