2025 shared humanity

20” x 16” Oil, colored pencil, and oil/wax crayon on linen. The paintings chronicle people who carve out lives on their own terms, often at odds with the world around them. I’m drawn to their vulnerability and defiance, especially now, as the political climate becomes increasingly hostile to difference. The light from my Love/Fear neon sign casts both tenderness and unease across the work, mirroring the fragile balance between freedom and fear, love and resistance.

The only way out is through.

Robert Frost

A series of 6 portraits featuring images of children and young adults as a fictional representation and tribute to abuse survivors, honoring their struggle in dealing with the mental aftermath and their courage to move forward and have the strength to engage in a constant process of mental revision.

“ Color is the very essence of childhood imagination,” Walter Benjamin. Inspired by this quote, she painted the faces without color, because children of abuse have been robbed of their childhood imagination.

Note: By adding a glow-in-the-dark halo, she restores the survivor to innocence.. All of the eyes are the artist’s own.

2025 NEW WORK

20” x 16” Oil, colored pencil, and oil/wax crayon on linen. Fragments from a time when the future felt boundless, before the political weight of 2025 began to press upon the edges of our freedom—when politics slowly seeped into the quiet corners of ordinary happiness, altering the light itself.

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