John Sonsini's full-length portrait, Christian, is part of a series featuring day laborers hired off the street, a visible but often politically underrepresented group. The painting retains the figurative distortions of Sonsini’s earlier career, but offers a more empathetic approach to portraiture. The subjects are often taken out of their usual environments and placed on abstract backgrounds alongside props that relate to their cultural identity and migratory existence.
