This is a small acrylic mixed methods painting on black canvas. Ada created this piece on her Spring Break 2025 as part of a set that took 12 hours to complete in her basement studio. Join the growing number of socially considerate people to share empathy through art.

This piece reflects a bear amongst other things that came to mind for Ada.

This collection is based on 7 year old Ada's designs and research on an "empathic mindset". Experimental research (randomized placebo-controlled field experiments) published in the National Academies of Sciences shows that an empathic mindset can mitigate historic barriers like access to education (2016). The Principal Investigator who created and tested the idea explained it to his 7 year old daughter and she painting this an other pieces as part of an art line to spread the contagious, prosocial, and uplifting effects of empathy with others throughout the world.