A 2022 oil-on-canvas painting (24 x 48 in) created for a lotus-themed guest cottage, presenting the lotus through three perspectives — a traditional side view, a top-down view, and an energetic view — as a symbol of the awakening higher self.
An artist’s statement for The Bay Vision, a twelve-by-twenty-four-inch oil-on-canvas painting from 2022 depicting a recurring lifelong inner vision of a protected bay, a small boat, and calm, contemplative exploration.
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A reflection on a public art collaboration in Purcellville, Virginia, where painted yellow trash bags hung around town overnight posed a question about balancing economic progress against preserving history and small-town character.
An art piece created to depict the artist’s own mind, its pockets of order and intellectual curiosity threatened by, or perhaps threatening, a tidal wave of obsessive distraction, capturing the felt experience of an autistic inner world.
A description of an abstract artwork titled Ordered Chaos, offered for sale, inspired by Chaos Theory in mathematics — the artist playing with the idea that chaos can be ordered and generative, and reframing change as not always a bad thing.
A description of a mixed-media artwork honoring Salvador Dali’s brief cubist period, built from several smaller canvases with strategically placed holes and glass tiles forming the seeds, offered for sale.
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 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.