I am an artist and an art therapist in Portland, OR.
Life is constantly in flux - emotions dissipate, thoughts scatter, identities shift. A piece of art is a mark of many influences coming together at one specific point in time (What did I eat for breakfast? What's happening in the world around me? How do I feel in my body today? Was the color I wanted available?....).
Pre-CoVid, I was working on larger scale, organic, inky pieces (3’ – 6’): fluidity, movement, spontaneity. During CoVid, I worked much smaller, in pencil, on portraits of emergency department colleagues in their PPE: up close, focused, contained. Each type of artwork is equally an attempt to connect my own experience with the outside world. They are just two very different moments in time, both internally and externally.