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Pop-up Art Show with Poetry 🔜 Saturday, April 11th, Pioneer Park, St. George, Utah. I’ll be there early in the morning in case it rains later!

See you all there.

Inside and Out- picture of Oliver Lee Memorial State Park in New Mexico

I guess I couldn’t see myself until now. Until I fell deeply into the gaze of her light and realized it was my own. Me calling myself home. How long I wandered and waited, doubted and stated. To think there was ever a time I thought I knew who I was and what I wanted? I laugh at her with pity and I hold her close with warmth. She’s just a child who needs more guidance, guidance from her inner soul. Reckless moves born from sightless eyes, but it was never her fault she was given so much weight before her muscles developed. I admire her spark, still glowing as ever. She never let it dim, never burned down to embers. She scattered at times, thought maybe she’d die, but she always stood back up and kept on with her cry. Now here she stands, eye to eye with the sky, knowing absolutely nothing and finally truly becoming.

The trees know

They know something I don’t. They whisper with the wind as they look down at me. What is it they know? They stand so close to the sky reaching for the sun and so far down below me. They have to know what this all is that I’m so desperate to know. Would they tell me if I asked? If I stood close by, held their gaze, thanked them for their shade and all their oxygen; would they tell me then? I put my ear to their bark and wait for a sign, but all that I can understand is how beautiful they think I am.

Is that what they know that I don’t know?

“I See You” Moon rise over El Morro National Monument in New Mexico. Seeing this in my hallway everyday makes me not want to sell it. Maybe I won’t. We’ll see.

Next in my series and upcoming show, “I forgot the sky, but she remembers me” on April 11 at Pioneer Park in St. George, Utah at the Pavilion- the one to the right of Dixie Rock if you’re facing it.

Each photograph has a corresponding plein air and encaustic along with a poetic write up. See the whole series on April 11!

What if…. 🤔😈🔥

Pictures by me from a recent trip to some local rare waterfalls.

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To see yourself in nature’s sky is what this piece delivers. The last of the Paria, Utah pieces this one is mixed media, Encaustic with broken mirror shattered by the wind. I often think of the wind as the sky’s voice and so the pieces of this mirror felt so fitting to finish the set.

Seeing this on my kitchen wall in the morning reminds me to slowdown and take a breath before I jump into the madness of the day.

Plein air of our first stop on our Southwest road trip in Paria, Utah. All of my plein air pieces from this trip contain a line of poetry, or a lyric, that came to me while drawing. For me, as part of my Synesthesia, words, music, color, shape, and movement all come together to create one super experience. Sometimes this can make drawing hard as I have to tune out some of it to focus on just one element to capture, but every now and then I let some more slip through.

The first of a series I’ve been working on since November, 2025. There’s something about printing a photograph of the expansive sky in such a small format that makes me want to dive into it and put it on the first wall you see when you enter my home. Imagine be greeted by this everyday.

On a trip through the Southwest I wanted to know what would happen if I let the sky talk to me and direct my attention and art with each place we parked our RV. The result has been everything I imagined and more. The sky has so much to teach us if we can slow down enough to listen.

I began with a photograph of each location, then a plein air using acrylic paint markers and my sketchbook, and then upon returning home, I created an Encaustic piece of each photograph and plein air capturing the emotion I experienced at each location. I’m in love with this series and so excited to begin sharing it with you.

I promise you Perception is one if the most important and Empowering things you can learn about. Please take my word for this and ask me questions. I have free resources to offer where you can learn more and you can join my Patreon and Paid Substack to learn from me.

Photo credit is me from a recent cross-country roadtrip!

Photo credit to ArtHouse Studio and Vlad Bagacian from Pexels- edits and words by me.

I watched the state of the union and I regret it. It’s making me feel like a chimpanzee that’s been kidnapped and forced into a study on the effects of L*D on mammal brains and my dose is way too high.

The conclusion? L*D is bad for monkeys.

Read more on my Substack and Patreon

I’ve been through many bouts of Ontological Shock and come through finding some footing and support. Every time I made it through it was because a group of people who understood what was happening to me helped me through. Don’t do it alone.

Using my writing, art, and subconscious world connections to teach people how to understand themselves and rewire is my cause. Reprogramming after years of bu****it is a worthy way to help and I’m equipped to do exactly that.

Pictures by me from a trip to Chaco Canyon, New Mexico.
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A dive into my inner world makes for great content from time to time. Praying Mantis original image by Gratisography from Pexels- black and white edit by me. The words are all me and my subconscious ❤️