Forward Moving Being Of Divine Light 16x20 Mixed Media on a 20x28 canvas
This piece began with a phrase I wrote in my journal in 2018: “Forward moving being of divine light.” At the time, it was an aspiration—a declaration of who I hoped I could become. When I stumbled across those words again during the residency, they stopped me. They felt like both a reminder and a message from my past self: You are already her.
I wrote the phrase directly onto the canvas, then layered paint, gold leaf, and thread over and around it—not to hide it, but to honor how that light moves through chaos, uncertainty, and time. Ribbon and string collected from the ArtQuest space were sewn into the piece, integrating the environment into the work and honoring the influence of this temporary studio on my process.
Stitching with green embroidery floss became a meditative practice—a way to trace and highlight the energy I wanted to call in. As I created this piece, I felt a shift. The internal static of fear and overwhelm began to quiet. In its place, a clearer, steadier sense of self emerged: resilient, radiant, and moving forward with intention.
Materials: acrylic paint, gold leaf, ribbon, string, embroidery floss on unstretched canvas
Each piece in Where the Ink Ran Out was created during or in preparation for my residency at ArtQuest at GreenHill, where my intention was to explore what couldn’t be fully expressed through words alone. All works are on loose, unstretched canvas, with a 16x20 area hand-gessoed at the center, leaving an unprimed border around the edges. I love how this allows the raw edges and natural wrinkles of the canvas to create dimension—each one casting its own subtle shadows. These pieces are meant to be framed in a way that honors that softness and relief, rather than flattening them completely. I also pushed the boundaries of mixed media in this collection, using embroidery floss as a connective and highlighting element—stitched into the canvas like a drawn line, guiding the eye and anchoring the emotion.
This piece began with a phrase I wrote in my journal in 2018: “Forward moving being of divine light.” At the time, it was an aspiration—a declaration of who I hoped I could become. When I stumbled across those words again during the residency, they stopped me. They felt like both a reminder and a message from my past self: You are already her.
I wrote the phrase directly onto the canvas, then layered paint, gold leaf, and thread over and around it—not to hide it, but to honor how that light moves through chaos, uncertainty, and time. Ribbon and string collected from the ArtQuest space were sewn into the piece, integrating the environment into the work and honoring the influence of this temporary studio on my process.
Stitching with green embroidery floss became a meditative practice—a way to trace and highlight the energy I wanted to call in. As I created this piece, I felt a shift. The internal static of fear and overwhelm began to quiet. In its place, a clearer, steadier sense of self emerged: resilient, radiant, and moving forward with intention.
Materials: acrylic paint, gold leaf, ribbon, string, embroidery floss on unstretched canvas
Each piece in Where the Ink Ran Out was created during or in preparation for my residency at ArtQuest at GreenHill, where my intention was to explore what couldn’t be fully expressed through words alone. All works are on loose, unstretched canvas, with a 16x20 area hand-gessoed at the center, leaving an unprimed border around the edges. I love how this allows the raw edges and natural wrinkles of the canvas to create dimension—each one casting its own subtle shadows. These pieces are meant to be framed in a way that honors that softness and relief, rather than flattening them completely. I also pushed the boundaries of mixed media in this collection, using embroidery floss as a connective and highlighting element—stitched into the canvas like a drawn line, guiding the eye and anchoring the emotion.
This piece began with a phrase I wrote in my journal in 2018: “Forward moving being of divine light.” At the time, it was an aspiration—a declaration of who I hoped I could become. When I stumbled across those words again during the residency, they stopped me. They felt like both a reminder and a message from my past self: You are already her.
I wrote the phrase directly onto the canvas, then layered paint, gold leaf, and thread over and around it—not to hide it, but to honor how that light moves through chaos, uncertainty, and time. Ribbon and string collected from the ArtQuest space were sewn into the piece, integrating the environment into the work and honoring the influence of this temporary studio on my process.
Stitching with green embroidery floss became a meditative practice—a way to trace and highlight the energy I wanted to call in. As I created this piece, I felt a shift. The internal static of fear and overwhelm began to quiet. In its place, a clearer, steadier sense of self emerged: resilient, radiant, and moving forward with intention.
Materials: acrylic paint, gold leaf, ribbon, string, embroidery floss on unstretched canvas
Each piece in Where the Ink Ran Out was created during or in preparation for my residency at ArtQuest at GreenHill, where my intention was to explore what couldn’t be fully expressed through words alone. All works are on loose, unstretched canvas, with a 16x20 area hand-gessoed at the center, leaving an unprimed border around the edges. I love how this allows the raw edges and natural wrinkles of the canvas to create dimension—each one casting its own subtle shadows. These pieces are meant to be framed in a way that honors that softness and relief, rather than flattening them completely. I also pushed the boundaries of mixed media in this collection, using embroidery floss as a connective and highlighting element—stitched into the canvas like a drawn line, guiding the eye and anchoring the emotion.
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