Chattanooga Food Bank Sack Pack Barrel, February 2006

As an artist I enjoy painting children. So when I learned of the Chattanooga Food Bank’s program designed to help supplement the diets of underprivileged children, it was only natural for me to use that as the subject of this painting. I enjoy painting children; because they are so full of life, of hope, and of a future. Children often don’t hold as many of the barriers that we hold as adults. Things such as color, nationality, or class distinctions aren’t a priority to them. Children are just children. They make do with what they have. And when children don’t have a lot, they demonstrate the greatest joy for the simple things that are given them. Having seen some of the hungry people of Chattanooga, it breaks my heart. And being a “starving artist” myself, I don’t have as much money as I would like to be able to help. However, I am greatly privileged to be given the opportunity to paint this barrel as a token of the support I would like to give. For myself, thanks to God, I have enough to get by; but there are so many in situations much worse than mine. As for the growing children with their futures before them, I am thankful that the Chattanooga Food Bank is working to see that these children might get the necessary nutrients needed for developing a healthy body and mind.

Christina Davis

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