My mother died in 2016, at the age of 49. Suddenly she was gone and I was hit with the agonizing reality that our sacred maternal bond was forever severed on the physical plane. Losing that maternal connection became all I could think about - the power of it and how there is no life without it. What I have learned since, is that our connection still exists and will always exist in spirit, for every connection is spiritual.
Through my spirituality, I have found gratitude in my mother's death. I have come to believe that in each life experience is a lesson - the more painful the experience, the deeper the lesson cuts. These lessons have the power to transform us, which means these lessons have the power to transform the world - for better or for worse.
Using acrylic paint on canvas, my work seeks to explore what I believe it means to be human, and how many aspects of modern life (as pre-historic flesh-vessels living in a technologically-advanced world) have ceased to make sense in my grief. We are spiritual creatures living in a spiritually devoid time, I want my art to reconnect people to the spirit.
Mementos of an Expedited Youth, 2024
60 x 46 x 1.25 in
Acrylic on Canvas
Consecrated, 2024
36 x 48 x 1.25 in
Acrylic on Canvas
Life's Brevity (Journey to the Center of Oblivion), 2024
52 x 40 x 1.25 in
Acrylic on Canvas
Death Rattle, 2024
36 x 48 x 1.25 in
Acrylic on Canvas
A Venusian Fantasy, 2024
48 x 48 x 1.25 in
Acrylic on Canvas
My Blood Smells Like My Mother's, 2023
48 x 48 x 1.25 in
Acrylic on Canvas
Doppelgänger, 2023
60 x 48 x 1.25 in
Acrylic on Canvas
Breed, 2023
36 x 48 x 1.25 in
Acrylic on Canvas
Probable Cause, 2023
40 x 40 x 1.25 in
Acrylic on Canvas
Respect Your Mother, 2023
36 x 48 x 1.25 in
Acrylic on Canvas
The Return, 2023
48 x 48 x 1.25 in
Acrylic on Canvas
God Is Alive, 2023
36 x 48 x 1.25 in
Acrylic on Canvas
When I Was a Child, I Woke Up a Woman, 2023
122 x 91.5 x 3.175 cm | 48 x 36 x 1.25 in
Acrylic on Canvas
Ovum, 2023
36 x 36 x 1.25 in
Acrylic on Canvas
Psychic Sovereignty, 2023
36 x 48 x 1.25 in
Acrylic on Canvas