Life Cycles

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The last few months, I’ve spent more time exploring my art and creating new work than I’ve probably spent since high school.

I’m a little alarmed to realize that high school ended 11 years ago!

Lately, I’ve been thinking about cycles in life. Something ends, but it begins something new. A season of hard times shifts into a season of abundance. Framing life in this way, it is easier to soak up the beauty of the present moment. And a little easier to have faith that no trial lasts forever.

I recently finished this piece for the Ways of Seeing show at Thumbprint Gallery in La Jolla, CA.

Cycles

Pyrography and India Ink on Birch Board

12”x12”

2021

Truthfully, I started it quite some time ago, and shelved it. Snakes are really not my thing! It feels significant that at this time in my life, as I am pushing through discomfort, this piece would call out again. Push through the discomfort of learning how to illustrate an animal that is frightening. Make it beautiful.

It is humbling and thrilling to know that this piece found its new home on opening night of the show. I’ve spent this season of life diving deeply into my dream of building a life where art is a blessing to my family and those around me. For the first time, I’m not going it alone.

I can’t wait to share more about the community that this season has made possible.

This next cycle is rebirth.

New Beginnings…

I’ve been waiting for the perfect message, the perfect art collection, the perfect words to come to me. “If I’m going to take the time to write and share with others, it needs to be profound! I must have everything in order before I can begin, or no one will take me seriously or be helped by what I have to say.”

Oof, that’s heavy.

This probably isn’t surprising: the perfect time hasn’t come, and it isn’t coming. I’m home raising my beautiful (nearly) four year old twin daughters, and delightful 18 month old son. They are all kinds of magic and light and…chaos! Our days are filled with learning and growing.

I have learned and grown more than I could have imagined in the last four years. Transitioning into motherhood was not easy.

One of the lessons learned is that there never will be a perfect day. But any day that I learn something good and helpful and don’t share…is a day that I may be depriving someone else of the chance to learn and be helped. Or just a chance to be seen.

So, here we go. Making art is how I connect to myself and others. I look forward to sharing my process and learning with you. I hope to create a space for connection and conversation.

May we learn and grow together!

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