A call for help from a Saskatoon mother on World Suicide Prevention Day “This is what I painted, and it was 23 days after my son died,” Irwin said as she shows Global News a painting of a man all in black walking away amid a white background.To her, she said, the painting is “extremely powerful”.“It says a lot, that he’s walking off into the distance,” she explained.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]Another piece is meant to represent her son’s transforming into a spirit.
Other paintings are self-portraits, focusing on her struggle to come to terms with her son’s passing.She said she wanted this display to show the impact suicide has on the people like her that are left behind.For the past three.