The less I tell myself “I can’t,” and the more I wonder “what if,” I uncover bigger and bigger hidden gems, aligned people, materials, books, podcast episodes that tell me I can. It’s a reminder that when we thing we’re stuck in one reality, we can actively make choices to tune into the frequency of another.
Read MoreWhen you’ve painted your entire life, your “why” can change alot. I’ve painted for curiosity, I’ve painted to channel, I’ve painted for others, and I’ve painted to prove something. Now, 12 weeks postpartum, I paint to stay sane. Read the full essay here!
Read MoreI realized that in depicting a figure dressed up (or not) and set in a dreamscape of this day and age, it told me things. It allowed me to really see this age, this era, this mental space I’m in — that we’re all in. The figure is just a channel. The story it tells is beyond me.
Read MoreFinding time and space to rethink the way I view creation has been challenging postpartum. I’m not even talking about making art or creating — just even thinking about it as a concept.
Read MoreHe was selling ice cream at a stand, but before the customer received it, he would hand it to his larger-than-life drag queen friend who licked it first. When the customer said, “You can’t do that,” the drag queen replied, “Sure I can – now it’s sculpture!”
Read MoreAt the end the hostesses themselves came out on stage in sparkly leotards atop florescent tights and capped with running shoes, throwing balloons and opening champagne for everyone in the audience.
Read MoreThe dance room was filled with dozens – even hundreds – of balloons and video projections of lucid bright lights which flashed on every wall and streamed across the posts and columns that held the high ceiling.
Read MoreOn either side of the room and intermingled with the audience, were several microphones. Every now and again, someone would say some words or present a monologue, mostly all in German.
Read MoreBeing that somehow I happened to pair my timing perfectly with the end of summer/early fall season - when all of the slumbering arts were beginning to wake with a fury - I stumbled upon some of the most interesting installations, spoken word and theater nights of the year.
Read MoreWritten at 4 am in Kiev, Ukraine. My great aunt’s kitchen table, orange streetlamp beaming through ornate lace curtains and cutting the color of icy dark blue.
Read MoreOne of the least talked about things in the stories of my people is that of deep, ancestral Trauma.
Read MoreIt seems like the biggest hold up with Transitions is the slowly dawning realization that when you change one major thing, EVERYTHING ELSE will change as well.
Read MoreThat perfect, gestural line, crisp as it whips down along the curves and angles it defines. A smudge of thick lavender icing beside electric lemon smoke. The smell of fresh cut wood and mineral spirits; of doughy, old oil paint. This. Is. The. Shit. That. Matters.
Read MoreWe have been given these great, beautiful vessels. Before all else, we must remember to honor the very thing that carries your creativity and ability to make something out of nothing.
Read MoreIt's funny -how when you start looking back you find patterns. Patterns that change, patterns that remain, patterns that weave together where you've come to now.
Read MoreUniversally acquired experience and past life energies are very real...Things your body remembers that your brain does not. The soul-part of your body, the Code.
Read MoreIt's sort of like....you know when an anxiety prone pup in a crate starts working himself up and keeps barking and barking until eventually he works himself into such a frenzy that there's no going back and he's hurting himself on the door trying to get out? Yeah, it's exactly like that.
Read MoreLilith was a wild woman. She was the first woman God ever created from sediment to be the first wife of Adam. She was created as an equal to him.
Read MoreMy intent was to do a shoot that showcased their natural beauty sans the heavy, contoured makeup that makes girls look far beyond their years nowadays. I wanted to capture that fleeting, playful spirit that lingered in their waning summer days of girlhood.
Read More“I used to try to fight it, trying to keep myself super disciplined in one area because I thought "that's what I need to do to be a proper painter," which never even really worked out anyways.”
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