Words in painting: I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know I can give love for a minute, for a half an hour, for a day, for a month. bit I know I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that. helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life. a kind of destiny. everyone needs to feel valued Everyone has the potential to give something back. Carry our random acts of kindness with no explanation of reward. Safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you. Hugs can do a great amount of good especially for children. The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. People are so intolerant of each other. Anywhere I see suffering that is where I want to be. Christina Major was born in Concord, New Hampshire in 1982. She has lived all over the world including Hawaii, France, New York and more currently Florida. Christina has achieved her MFA at Florida Atlantic University and has exhibited throughout South Florida. Her work has been collected both nationally and internationally. Christina Major is a portrait painter interested in the ways the identity of both artist and subject can coexist in a painting. Major's graduate thesis exhibition, Components of self, evolved from her desire to combine large scale portrait painting with writing. She developed methods of using paint to express a merging of herself with the individual painted in the portrait, resulting in a hybrid of herself and the person depicted.