A short note on an early adult artwork reinterpreting Salvador Dali’s ‘Big Thumb and Dead Bird’ in sand tones with painted-sand texture, reflecting Dali’s lasting influence on the artist since her teenage years.
A candid photograph of the author’s friend Paul, well known among guitarists, intended to capture the loneliness of a gifted person surrounded by others and the unpretentious personal space of a great mind.
A vacation close-up photograph contrasting the sharpness of cactus and metal with the softness of a clay pot and flame, capturing a moment of balance the artist wanted to carry with her.
A short reflection accompanying a close-up rose artwork, where the artist examines her instinctive rejection of the color pink as tied to a wounded aspect of femininity, and considers meeting that part of herself with compassion.
A visual artwork reimagining the nautilus and the golden ratio as a composition of rectangles with selective detail, created by the artist as a cathartic exercise in finding order amid life’s chaos.
A visual artwork exploring the artist’s fascination with leaf shapes and the recurring, network-like patterns found at every scale of existence — a motif she returns to repeatedly while still puzzling over its meaning.
A visual art study of woodgrain that centers on a knot, celebrating the beauty and uniqueness of what is usually seen as an imperfection.
A visual artwork inspired by an actual graph of bees’ movement into and out of a structure and their major flight paths, translating the underlying science into an image the artist found beautiful.
A digital art piece exploring networks, multiple universes and the possible connections between them — some empty, some full of amazing things, some linked to others and some holding connections of their own.
A digitally altered photograph of a Harley motorcycle — the artist’s first-ever ride — created as an early experiment in enhancing a photo’s features and marking the moment that inspired her to pursue a license and a bike of her own.
A minimalist digital art study (2011–2013) of flowers and leaves, using unexpected colors and color-blocking to strip away color as the obvious appeal and isolate what makes their balance of sharp and rounded shapes so pleasing.
A digital art piece (2011–2013) using transparent lines to evoke a blurred image just out of focus — a study of the simultaneous frustration and excitement of sensing a reality you cannot quite bring into clear view.
A digital art piece (2015) expressing the political feelings of the time — a sense of being crowded out of one’s own country with little hope of change — later tempered by the realization the artist was not as alone as it had seemed.
A digital art piece from 2013-2014 that uses natural colors and layered transparency to create a dimensional, dandelion-like close-up image, not a photograph, offered as prints and products on Redbubble.
A digital art piece from 2012 exploring transparency, white space, the absence of color and small areas of fine detail as compositional elements.
A large acrylic-on-canvas painting with a wood frame and movable panels, made 2011-2013, depicting the evolution of order into chaos; the artist considers it a masterwork and offers it for sale.
A 2014 watercolor study of the untouched cover photo from the author’s first album, in which she confronts long-held body image and, seeing herself as art beside her guitar, reframes her self-perception.
One of the author’s first digital art pieces, exploring a theme of precarious positioning and using the color red to evoke excitement, danger and the promise of action; available as prints and products on Redbubble.
A one-of-a-kind sculpture made from 100% aluminum wire, roughly eight inches high and five wide, in which many twisting strands resolve into the organized form of a tree — offered as a study for a larger future project and available for purchase.