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Encaustic 24 x 24
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The bee reads simultaneously as fragile, enduring, sacred, and burdened. The translucency of the wings against the dense, almost cellular body creates a tension between delicacy and persistence that feels deeply connected to grief and memory. This painting has a sacred quality to it without becoming symbolic in a fixed way. It stays open, which is part of its strength. The bee can be read as labor, tenderness, ecology, fragility, motherhood, continuation, devotion, or embodied intelligence—all of which quietly support the feelings and memories I embodied while creating this show.
Encaustic and Collage 24 x 24
This piece is profoundly intimate. The incorporation of handwritten text from her diary changes the emotional register immediately—it brings the viewer into direct contact with lived traces, fragments of voice, daily language, memory as artifact. Often feelings and thought she could never say out loud. It feels more explicitly relational, almost like a conversation continuing across time. The figure appears suspended between presence and dissolution. Her body is literally constructed through her written remnants, which is such a powerful metaphor for how we often carry those we love: through phrases, notes, gestures, small, remembered sentences, and ordinary moments.
Encaustic and Cane 24 x 24
The surrounding encaustic atmosphere feels turbulent and immense—like sky, water, smoke, memory, or the body itself in motion. And that vivid blue horizontal line is grounding the emotional tension of loss. It feels like a horizon, a boundary, a dividing line between different states of being.
Encaustic and fabric 24 x 24
This piece feels quieter, earthbound, and deeply elemental. It carries a different emotional temperature from many of the others—less overtly visceral or narrative, and more geological, tidal, archaeological. It feels like memory embedded in landscape. Memory unraveled through the grief of time.
This painting feels like memory dissolving and reforming at the same time. It has an almost dream-state quality—as if forms are trying to emerge through rain, wax, breath, or tears and then slipping away again before they can fully resolve. This is what moving through the loss of my mother feels like.
Encaustic and oils 24 x 24
I started as a messy scribble of energy and breath. Now I am a tight, red knot in your stomach and cool blue waves moving through your chest. Look at me; I am proof that you are here, that you feel, and that you have begun to move the invisible into the open.
Encaustic and paper 24 x 24
The repeated figure creates a sensation of time unfolding across the canvas—as though we are watching a body move through remembering or perhaps move through grief while carrying inherited language alongside it. The translucent layering of the figure appears both present and disappearing, embodied yet ghosted. And the handwritten fragments no longer feel anchored or preserved here. They drift. Scatter. Swarm. They become atmosphere rather than archive.
Encaustic and Paper 24 x 24
I found myself carrying a lot. Between the loss of my mother and feeling extremely fatigued from work, I don’t think I fully realized how much that was sitting in my body, overwhelming me. The passages do not feel empty—they feel like absence made visible. They function almost as grief itself: the shape left behind when something once occupied space.
Mixed Media 20 x 20
This piece feels ancient, intimate, and deeply symbolic without becoming illustrative. It carries a strong sense of nesting, preservation, cycles, and fragile continuity. The inclusion of actual objects—the nest, eggs, branches, barbed wire—creates a tactile immediacy that feels almost devotional, but not quite safe.
Encaustic and oils 20 x 20
This painting feels raw—as though emotion has moved directly into gesture, stain, pressure, abrasion, and surface. It felt visceral while I painted it.
Encaustic and Collage 20 x 20
This piece feels expansive, cinematic, and psychologically layered in a way that’s incredibly compelling. It reads almost like multiple states of being existing simultaneously across one emotional landscape. The figures appear dispersed across different planes of consciousness; illustrative of our altered identities across time.
Encaustic and Ink 18 x 18
This painting feels immense—both visually and emotionally. The elephant form carries such powerful symbolic and embodied presence, but because it emerges through abstraction and layered materiality, it avoids becoming illustrative. Instead, it feels archetypal, ancestral, almost mythic. Elephants carry strong associations with memory, matriarchal lineage, mourning rituals, tenderness, protection, communal grieving, and embodied intelligence.
There is something profoundly maternal and elemental here. The composition carries tremendous movement, that feels organic and inevitable—as though the forms are growing, unfolding, listening, remembering through their very structure.
Encaustic 18 x 18
Encaustic and collage 18 x 18
Encaustic and Watercolor 18 x 18
Encaustic and Paper 20 x 20
Encaustic 16 x 16
Each commissioned piece is a collaborative conversation — an opportunity to explore memory, place, and meaning through encaustic and mixed media.
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