Together We Float 16x20 Mixed Media on a 20x28 canvas
Together We Float emerged from a moment of profound emotional clarity and surrender. Built on layers of old art journal pages and handwritten entries from 2018, this piece bridges past and present, stitching together the voice I once was with the woman I am now—standing on the edge of a healing journey, learning to float.
While creating this work, I wrote about the feeling of being swept into a riptide. I had not planned for cancer. I had been swimming along in the rhythm of my life, and then—suddenly—I couldn’t reach the shore. But I remembered something: to survive a riptide, you don’t fight the current. You float. You soften. You surrender. And then, when you can, you swim parallel to the shore.
This painting holds that revelation.
It is a meditation on radical self-love and the power of conscious choice. It refuses the violent metaphors often used around illness. There is no war here. No fight. Just softness. Curiosity. Reverence for the body as it is. An openness to seeing this moment not as punishment, but as a gift. As an invitation to love and be loved more deeply than ever before.
Fragments of past journals, moments of chaos, and tender truths are embedded in the canvas—both literally and symbolically. They are reminders that even when we feel far from solid ground, we are not alone.
We float. Together.
Materials: acrylic paint, oil pastel, pencil, collaged journal pages 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.
Together We Float emerged from a moment of profound emotional clarity and surrender. Built on layers of old art journal pages and handwritten entries from 2018, this piece bridges past and present, stitching together the voice I once was with the woman I am now—standing on the edge of a healing journey, learning to float.
While creating this work, I wrote about the feeling of being swept into a riptide. I had not planned for cancer. I had been swimming along in the rhythm of my life, and then—suddenly—I couldn’t reach the shore. But I remembered something: to survive a riptide, you don’t fight the current. You float. You soften. You surrender. And then, when you can, you swim parallel to the shore.
This painting holds that revelation.
It is a meditation on radical self-love and the power of conscious choice. It refuses the violent metaphors often used around illness. There is no war here. No fight. Just softness. Curiosity. Reverence for the body as it is. An openness to seeing this moment not as punishment, but as a gift. As an invitation to love and be loved more deeply than ever before.
Fragments of past journals, moments of chaos, and tender truths are embedded in the canvas—both literally and symbolically. They are reminders that even when we feel far from solid ground, we are not alone.
We float. Together.
Materials: acrylic paint, oil pastel, pencil, collaged journal pages 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.
Together We Float emerged from a moment of profound emotional clarity and surrender. Built on layers of old art journal pages and handwritten entries from 2018, this piece bridges past and present, stitching together the voice I once was with the woman I am now—standing on the edge of a healing journey, learning to float.
While creating this work, I wrote about the feeling of being swept into a riptide. I had not planned for cancer. I had been swimming along in the rhythm of my life, and then—suddenly—I couldn’t reach the shore. But I remembered something: to survive a riptide, you don’t fight the current. You float. You soften. You surrender. And then, when you can, you swim parallel to the shore.
This painting holds that revelation.
It is a meditation on radical self-love and the power of conscious choice. It refuses the violent metaphors often used around illness. There is no war here. No fight. Just softness. Curiosity. Reverence for the body as it is. An openness to seeing this moment not as punishment, but as a gift. As an invitation to love and be loved more deeply than ever before.
Fragments of past journals, moments of chaos, and tender truths are embedded in the canvas—both literally and symbolically. They are reminders that even when we feel far from solid ground, we are not alone.
We float. Together.
Materials: acrylic paint, oil pastel, pencil, collaged journal pages 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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