60" x 60" handmade ink with acrylic and gesso on Yupo paper
80" x 60" sumi and gesso on Yupo paper
60"x90" handmade ink, acrylic and gesso on Yupo paper
60" x 60" handmade ink with acrylic and gesso on Yupo paper
2025 was the year I couldn't stop painting skeletons. Originally, I drew them before doctor's appointments. My own version of the pain scale. In a "no, my pain isn't a 3-4 in this spot - it feels like it's tied incorrectly to this rib bone over here" type of way.
Eventually I considered the skeletons in more of a tender way. Skeletons aren't spooky - it's the meat. I wondered what they'd look like in quiet, mundane moments. They're vital, structural, simple without disease, feeling or -
They were sibling to the heart of my Torii series; is it the structure that holds your interest, or is it what's hidden beyond, what's blurred?
My heart broke in 2025 - putting my daughters to sleep while witnessing genocide in Gaza over social media.
It was and continues to be, a deep ache in my soul.
When we are all gone, happenstance location is all that distinguishes us from one another. I think of the figures embracing found in Pompeii. How it was a snapshot of a moment, not a statistic loss to geopolitics beyond their control.
