Eiza
Some have asked whether the children in my drawings exist, if I’ve met them or if I sponsor them.
To be honest only one of the drawings is based on an actual child – the others are composites of many (up to 10) photos.
Eiza was a girl I met at a special needs school in Nicaragua. She was fiesty and mischevious, and was the inspiration for this project. (Not all disabilities – and differences -can be seen. Yet every girl deserves to be loved for who she is.)