Tattoo Design – Freedom From Chaos
A brief note on the original concept design for the author’s tattoo, titled Freedom From Chaos, which was later placed winding up her back and around her arm.
Light Through The Blinds
A brief note on a morning light pattern cast through blinds at a beach house that so caught the author’s eye she recreated its abstract form in artwork.
Emotions As Lines And Color
A short note on a minimalist project representing each emotion as line and color, which yielded a color wheel of positive emotions and a matching one for negative emotions that the author found worked perfectly.
The Coming Wave
An abstract painting in shades of blue depicting a tiny self floating in the ocean as a great wave approaches, evoking the ambiguity of major, identity-altering change that is neither clearly good nor bad.
Fire
A brief description of an altered photograph studying a rooftop fire seen at a hotel in San Diego — an artistic exploration of what it is about fire that captures and holds the eye.
Shadow Love
An art photograph of a candlelit statue casting the shadow of a couple on the wall behind it, presented as a study in how outward appearances make it impossible to tell whether a relationship is happy, struggling, or in conflict.
Golden Rectangles
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.
Leaf in a Leaf
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.
Woodgrain
A visual art study of woodgrain that centers on a knot, celebrating the beauty and uniqueness of what is usually seen as an imperfection.
Homage to Bees
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.
Multiple Universes
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.
First Ride
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.
Color Block Still Life
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.
Blurred
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.
Crowded Out
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.
Dandelion
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.
Green Effects
A digital art piece from 2012 exploring transparency, white space, the absence of color and small areas of fine detail as compositional elements.
Falling Through
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.