Embracing the Shadow, mixed media painting on canvas. Prints available.
Category: Journey
Passion: A New Expressive Arts Piece.
Here is a new expressive arts piece titled Passion. This piece is a mixed media collage. Please visit my expressive arts page here.
Self Compassion: A New Expressive Arts Piece
What I know about growth is that it takes the time it takes. We can’t force it. We can’t jump ahead in the line. We have to start where we are, with acceptance that we don’t know whatever it is that we don’t know yet. And when we know better, we do better. It really…
Teachers
September always brings a sense of nostalgia and deja vu for me. Something about the intersections of new beginnings and letting go. This is the first year in many that it doesn’t mean back to school for me… but I have a lot of friends who are teacher, was raised by a teacher, and with…
Dance
Growing up in middle-class white culture, many of my generation didn’t know how to dance. Dancing was for lovers at weddings. For performers. But not for celebration. Not for rebellion. Not for connection. Not for tradition. The expressions of humanity were sanctioned under very specific social rules because the only people that danced outside of…
At the Intersection of White Fragility, Privilege, Disability, Queerness, and Trauma
It is not easy to be present for someone else when we don’t know how to be present for ourselves, especially in matters of social justice. When we don’t know how to have a deep conversation with others that believe differently than we do or have different experiences than us. When we have been traumatized…
A new concept expressive arts piece
Here is a new expressive arts piece based on the theme of swirling thoughts. This piece is a mixed media collage with 3 poems, below.
Please visit my expressive arts page here.
Expressive arts and post-traumatic growth.
This set is an expansion series on a 20-year-old painting depicting post-traumatic growth using mixed media collage with Acrylic, original poetry and feathers. The original painting was from a recurring nightmare that I’d had most of my life where the person in the dream had no face. When I painted it, I wanted to turn…
Two new expressive arts works and new page.
Here are two new expressive art pieces… both mixed media collage with poetry. Poetree at Dawn… Grounding Thoughts, and Poetree at Dusk… Peace. I have created a new page for this site for my expressive arts pieces here. Poems that accompany these pieces posted below: Grounding Thoughts Sometimes, our pain is so great that the…
Soul-cialist Tendencies 