VIDEO – SOUL ALCHEMY: GRIEF INTO ART –

April 11, 2024 – When Theresa Clower lost her son, Devin, she turned to an old hobby she hadn’t picked up in nearly five decades. 

With a degree in fine arts, she picked up a pencil and paper and began sketching her precious boy. Devin died of a fentanyl overdose in Baltimore in 2018. Never having done portrait work before, she wasn’t sure where it would lead her. Looking back now, she said she thinks it was Devin’s way of helping her through her grief. Clower started drawing everyone, but it wasn’t quite what she was looking to do with her newfound drive to put faces onto paper.

“The idea of doing portraits of people who died like Devin from drug addiction was how it began,” she said. “Devin is always with me because I speak his name, I see his portrait, I’m pushing and I do believe this was a gift from him after he died.” 

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