In This House 16x20 Mixed Media on a 20x28 canvas
In This House is the final piece created during the Where the Ink Ran Out residency, and it carries the clarity, conviction, and softness that emerged through every step of the journey. This piece is built around a page torn directly from my journal—a handwritten list of personal truths and guiding principles for how I choose to speak about and move through cancer.
The journal entry—glued into the canvas—is more than text. It is a declaration:
In this house, I do not fight my body.
In this house, I choose softness over violence.
In this house, I call healing a gift.
In this house, I welcome love in greater and greater waves.
Painted in acrylic and layered with oil pastels, gold thread, and stitched lines of embroidery floss, the piece radiates with both tenderness and strength. It speaks to a new kind of power—not one rooted in force or control, but in intention, integrity, and an open heart.
As the final work in the series, In This House marks not just the close of a creative chapter, but the beginning of a new way of being. A new way of loving, healing, and living.
Materials: acrylic paint, oil pastel, embroidery floss, and collaged journal page on 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.
In This House is the final piece created during the Where the Ink Ran Out residency, and it carries the clarity, conviction, and softness that emerged through every step of the journey. This piece is built around a page torn directly from my journal—a handwritten list of personal truths and guiding principles for how I choose to speak about and move through cancer.
The journal entry—glued into the canvas—is more than text. It is a declaration:
In this house, I do not fight my body.
In this house, I choose softness over violence.
In this house, I call healing a gift.
In this house, I welcome love in greater and greater waves.
Painted in acrylic and layered with oil pastels, gold thread, and stitched lines of embroidery floss, the piece radiates with both tenderness and strength. It speaks to a new kind of power—not one rooted in force or control, but in intention, integrity, and an open heart.
As the final work in the series, In This House marks not just the close of a creative chapter, but the beginning of a new way of being. A new way of loving, healing, and living.
Materials: acrylic paint, oil pastel, embroidery floss, and collaged journal page on 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.
In This House is the final piece created during the Where the Ink Ran Out residency, and it carries the clarity, conviction, and softness that emerged through every step of the journey. This piece is built around a page torn directly from my journal—a handwritten list of personal truths and guiding principles for how I choose to speak about and move through cancer.
The journal entry—glued into the canvas—is more than text. It is a declaration:
In this house, I do not fight my body.
In this house, I choose softness over violence.
In this house, I call healing a gift.
In this house, I welcome love in greater and greater waves.
Painted in acrylic and layered with oil pastels, gold thread, and stitched lines of embroidery floss, the piece radiates with both tenderness and strength. It speaks to a new kind of power—not one rooted in force or control, but in intention, integrity, and an open heart.
As the final work in the series, In This House marks not just the close of a creative chapter, but the beginning of a new way of being. A new way of loving, healing, and living.
Materials: acrylic paint, oil pastel, embroidery floss, and collaged journal page on 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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