Give Your Loaved & Your Fish, Harold Segura, 2026
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Each year, a piece of art has been created as part of the Weekend of Prayer and Action Against Hunger. In 2026, Harold Segura presented a piece called 'Give Your Loaves & Your Fish.'
Bio: Harold Segura is a Colombian artist based in Costa Rica since 2000. His artistic practice is primarily developed through watercolor and acrylic, exploring simple forms, vibrant colors, and symbols that evoke everyday life and spirituality. His work, intuitive and expressive in nature, seeks to communicate tenderness, humanity, and hope through accessible and evocative compositions.
In addition to his artistic work, he serves as Director of the Department of Faith and Development for World Vision in Latin America and the Caribbean. He is also a university professor, speaker, and writer, with extensive experience in issues related to faith, development, and childhood. He has participated in exhibitions in Lima, Peru; at the University for Peace in San José, Costa Rica; and more recently at Sala Artea in Costa Rica. For him, painting is an exercise in personal recreation and inner balance that dialogues with his vocation and commitment to life.
Artist Statement: "In the Gospel narratives, a child offers five loaves and two fish—a small gesture that, in Jesus’ hands, becomes abundance for many. It was not the quantity that transformed reality, but the willingness to share. This work, Give your bread and your fish, captures that deeply human and spiritual intuition: what is little, when given, ceases to be insufficient.
The hands emerging in the composition do not grasp, but offer; they do not close, but open. The fish and the bread are not depicted as symbols of scarcity, but of possibility. There is a movement in the image that flows from the center outward, as a quiet invitation to break with the logic of hoarding and enter into the economy of gift.
The piece confronts us with a simple yet demanding question: what are we willing to put into circulation for the good of others? It is not only about material resources, but also time, care, attention, tenderness. In a world marked by perceived scarcity and fear of loss, this painting proposes an alternative: to trust that sharing is the beginning of multiplication.
More than depicting a miracle, the work provokes one in the viewer. It invites us to recognize that, very often, the true miracle begins when someone decides not to hold back what they have".
