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LUST

Medium:

Mirror, acrylic, adhesive, assorted jasper rocks, amethyst gemstones, mica powder

Summary:

This was the first of this series of mixed media pieces, created in just a few hours in January of 2025. My IDGAF pills were wearing off and I just started having intense feeling again. Internally, I felt a separation between two halves of myself. During this time, I felt as though I was ripping in half, with the whole of my true self emerging from the remnants.

DEPTH

Medium:

Canvas, acrylic, adhesive, flaked gold, peacock feather, false greenery

Summary:

It started on a black canvas with the word "feels" written across in heavy textured acrylic, leafed with gold. I wanted people to be able to touch my work, so the concept behind this is reminiscent of pulling someone's hair out of their face to see their eyes. I think this took around 2 days to make.

OPTICS

Medium:

Picture frames, canvas, acrylic, adhesives, Uline catalog paper, gold flakes, assorted gemstones, space patches, fake flower and greenery pieces

Summary:

This was a 3 - 4 day piece. I gutted a few photo frames and converted each to a piece of me - dreams (top left), beauty inside (top right), fragility of the spirit (bottom right) and grounding of the self (bottom left). I decided to rip open a pretty simply painted canvas and char the edges a bit to symbolize that what is viewed on the surface by others does not necessarily represent what is contained within the self.

PLAY

Medium:

Canvas, acrylic, modeling paste, plastic beads, glitter, gold flakes, plastic skateboard

Summary:

This took about an hour. My son inspired me to arrange the beads in color order as he often does with his toy cars and then I was just experimenting with modeling paste, glitter, and gold flaking. The cherry on top was the plastic skateboard. I love this tiny piece of fun.

Walls

Medium:

Cardboard tubes, caulk, adhesives, various mixed media (too many to list), spray paint, coffee grounds, dirt, charcoal

Summary:

This one was a doozy - it took about 3 weeks to complete. I caulked the cardboard tubes together and started writing the word "walls" in just about any medium I could find laying around the house. 24 walls, written in 24 materials:

pushpins
flowers
modeling paste
hot wheels/toy cars
ribbon
nails
beads
bubble wrap
vines
broken ceramic
rocks/gemstones
acetate strips
rice
puffy stickers
corn
pipe cleaners
bubble tea straws
3d printing filament
perler beads
rubber bands
usb-c cord
pom poms
dessicant beads
trash wrappers

This piece is close to my heart - it represents all the guards and walls I've built up around me to keep sadness out. Turns out most of those also were keeping out my joy.

LONGING

Medium:

Keyboard, paint, markers, whiteout

Summary:

This took about 3 hours. I was suffering that day - wanting something I knew I couldn't and shouldn't have. I had the song "Can't Help Falling In Love" (Elvis) stuck in my head the entire time. The deconstructed cord noose represents the feeling of wanting to end it.

RAGE

Medium:

Wood, acrylic, modeling paste, sand, various types of glitter and mica powder, sand, glue, gold flakes, ameythst gemstones

Summary:

This took about 4 days. I got angry with a family member the day I started this, so found a random piece of board laying around the house and started tracing the woodgrain spots with marker. Eventually I found various ways to fill the lines I'd created. The whole thing was an exercise in channeling the rage into something constructive.

I cry when the light hits this piece at different angles because it's so beautiful

Shards

Medium:

Wood, adhesives, cork, metal, gold flakes, flowers, sand, mica powder, resin, silica beads

Summary:

This took about 1.5 weeks. I've heard people tell me it looks like the beach, but I was visualizing a planet, sky and starts when making it. The general concept was that we are made of little bits that get us to our current place in our timeline. I wouldn't be here without all those little pieces that built me up to this moment, so I choose to keep them close to me and appreciate them for what they are.

This was my first exercise using resin and it was a test of patience and luck on my part.

PATHWAYS

Medium:

Wood, acrylic, modeling paste, sand, various types of glitter and mica powder, sand, glue, rose gold flakes, jasper, circuit boards, resin

Summary:

This took about 3 weeks. I started with some old boards from 3d printers and arranged them on the natural lines in the woodgrain on the board. I started tracing the valleys and canyons after that and decided to add a big dipper that glows in the dark. The concept here is pathways that connect things together so these three elements came together into this chaos.

CHICKEN DOODLE SOUP

Medium:

Ceramic bowl, ramen noodles, glitter, mica powder, pen doodles on paper, marker, spray paint

Summary:

This took about 2 weeks due to the multiple resin pours required. This was inspired by a random doodle while trying to inspire some creativity and I just ran with it. I tossed the dried ramen noodles in glow in the dark pigment prior to pouring resin over them to get some glow effect and just kind of doodled on each layer and added things in between the layers to create complexity.

Honestly, this is a weird one, but I love it for that reason!

DiSCO COOKIE

Medium:

Ceramic fortune cookie, acrylic paint, assorted glitter

Summary:

This took about 1 hour. It was a piece my husband picked out of the clearance section at a discount home and decor store and said "I bet you could fix this and make it better" so I powdered it with my favorite glitters.

MENDING

Medium:

Fancy dinner plate, acrylic, rhinestones, glitter, mica powder, resin, various gemstones, gold flakes, glitter, various types of adhesives

Summary:

This one took a long while - probably about 3 weeks, a few minutes each day due to setting time. I had an itch to scratch and wanted to break something, so I broke this lovely dinner plate with the intention of reassembling it as best I could. Similar to the galaxy it resembles, it spiraled into a "let's see where this goes" sort of experiment and I kept building it up until it felt finished.

The core concept was repairing that which has been broken - trust, promises, relationships, myself, etc.

HEAT

Medium:

Wood, acrylic, modeling paste, sand, various types of glitter and mica powder, sand, glue, gold flakes, spray paint

Summary:

This one took around 2 days. I refined my technique that was used in Pathways and Rage and had the semblance of direction. I had decided to play on flame temperatures with my color scheme.

Not much symbolism behind this one. I did most of the work on it on a day when I could truly be by myself and hear my thoughts. It was created during a time of clarity and inner peace (a rarity for me).

Boundaries

Medium:

Canvas, acrylic, glitter, mica powder

Summary:

A 30 minute project to relieve stress. Someone pushed me beyond previously established limits and I needed to get out the "No" that I decided to swallow and keep to myself in an effort to preserve family harmony.

WHAT IN THE DUCKS

Medium:

Rocks, acrylic, adhesives, glitter, resin ducks

Summary:

A 2 day piece.

It quacks like a duck, it looks like ducks, and why not use the damn ducks? I got nothing else.

BUMPING INTO YOU

Medium:

Paper, adhesives, modeling paste, mica powder, permanent marker, watercolors

Summary:

A four day work. This piece was about embracing the boring, average, normal things in life.

Without gratitude for the simple things, there's literally no point, is there?

The SITUATION

Medium:

Acrylic frame, fake foliage, fake cattails, fake pussy willow, knife blades, wire, fake grass, dried thorns from bushes in my front yard, a 3d printed heart, spray paint

Summary:

This took about 2 weeks.

This piece represents all the things we encase ourselves in to protect our most vulnerable, tender parts of our true selves.

And yes, I am pretty damn thorny, but inside there's some goodness (I think).

Graffiti girl

Medium:

Paper, watercolors, mica powder

Summary:

This was a 2 day piece.

It started as a scribble practicing my graffiti writing in random watercolors and ended up like this. She is sad because I was sad when I painted her.

HOT MESS

Medium:

Canvas, mica powder, acrylic, glitter, rhinestones, knife blades, silver flakes, permanent marker, mesh squares

Summary:

This was a 1 day project.

I bought an airbrush and wanted to see what I could get out to practice using it.

Overall, I'm pleased with where my chaos took me and and fond of the various textures present in the piece.

Overwhelm

Medium:

Canvas, oils, permanent markers, glitter, mica powder

Summary:

This was simply an afternoon release of emotion after a long series of days at work.

SPIRALING

Medium:

Canvas, acrylic, glitter, modeling paste, mica powder

Summary:

Again, another release of emotion during a period of high stress. I was playing with textures, motions and contrast on this one.

PERSPECTIVE

Medium:

Canvas, permanent markers, glitter, adhesive, mica powder, resin ducks

Summary:

I was in a dark place, so I scribbled down a bunch of negative things that had been on my mind over the past few weeks.

I processed for a few days, then decided to reframe my perspective and piled a bunch of positive things that has been said to me. The focus here was bringing myself up after mentally pulling myself down.

Backburner

Medium:

Wood, acrylic, food coloring, mica powder, pipe cleaners, glitter, adhesives, jade beads, fake flowers

Summary:

Over the years, I've forgotten how to ask for things that I want. This represents the underlying wants that get brushed to the side, tossed out and ignored when I've put others' wants and needs ahead of myself.

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