Stories // when we paint what we know.

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Sometimes you’re shrouded in darkness and don’t let anyone know.

Self portrait, 2019. Oil on canvas.

And sometimes you do.

Self portraits, 2020. Oil on canvas.

Can we help the way we feel?

Or try to control it?

We suppress. We explode.

We move on,

The stories all a part of us.

Self portraits, 2020. Oil on canvas.

Other times we heal.

We recede, we connect —

Under thick curls, a nest.

Our core doesn’t change; we just grow and evolve

We are sad, we let go,

We find out what’s next.

Jenna, 2022. Lindsay, 2022. Anne, 2019. Oil on canvas.

Still more we take slow,

We become as we learn,

We indulge in the way life’s

Delicious waves flow.

We accept that our role is just tangent

To those other stories around

All at once being told.

Evolutions, 2024. Oil on canvas.

We feel warm,

We embrace, we transition and

Find that the love we now feel

Has been always inside.

Self portraits, 2024. Oil on canvas, embroidery thread, photos.