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Chilled by the Past: A Winter Reflection
In 2018 I moved back to Kansas City from the South and I’d like to say KC gave us a warm welcome but it actually looked more like the featured photo on this post. Icy, snowy, and cold. Ok, I’ll admit, also a little magical. It was the first winter my husband experienced here in…
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Navigating Trauma and Grief through the Holidays
I painted this piece entitled, “Tethered Heart”, over Christmas break. It’s not exactly what you’d expect on a Christmas card, but the holidays can be tough for some, myself included. My painting, symbolizes the struggle of feeling bound by complex emotions, grief, and past traumas. These feelings can sometimes hang on my heart, tugging at…
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Snow
The first week of January is about in the books and those of us in KC got a pleasant surprise today. Snow! It’s still coming down so I recorded a bit of the big fluffy flakes floating down. I am lucky to live in a multi-story century old home with a renovated attic space so…
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Parts of the Inner World – Art & Comics
When I first started working with a therapist, I was struggling to explain my own inner dynamics. My feelings were in flux and I constantly felt like I was being split into several different perspectives and directions. I found out later, that there was a reason for this – I was suffering from dissociative identity…
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Dense Fog
There was a yellow ring glowing gently around my Alexa Dot this morning. It indicated a notification. Hazily, I slapped the screen as I tried to shake off my sleepiness. “Dense Fog Advisory”. I rubbed my eyes and chuckled, that sounds about right, I thought to myself. Over the past several days, I had been…
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Gouacheeee!
Gouache. It’s not only a kind of fun word to say (Goo-wash) I feel like it’s the perfect traditional medium for illustrators. And for as long as it’s been around, it’s not very well known, oddly. If you love experimenting with watercolor take a risk and play around with gouache some time. If you’re an…
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Merry Christmas and Welcome
At the end of the year I like to take a couple weeks off my job as a product designer to reflect, watch copious amounts of TV, and lose myself in art. Mostly, I just love being lazy (and by lazy I mean recovering and taking care of my chronically fatigued body). Staycations are so…
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In Memoriam
The is one of the first large scale pieces of artwork I created and it was created for my brother a few months after he died in February of 2021. This was the second collage of this kind I have created. The other I made while I was in college, shortly before I dropped out…
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Sea Turtles
Over the course of the last few months I have been working on a collection of pieces that focus on animals. Not just animals as they are in nature, but fantastical animals. I tend to want to challenge myself so, I’m not always successful but that’s okay. All part of the learning process. But these…
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Growth out of Grief
During the Covid-19 pandemic, I lost someone close to me and found myself feeling hopeless and often, suicidal. It took nearly three years for me to weather that storm and find my footing again. Part of that journey led me to writing and making art, and ultimately, this personal blog. The Foundation Crumbles My brother…