Behind the Painting

Title: Planted For the ones still standing. Still growing. Still becoming. Planted is finally finished. This painting has been with me for years, and now that it’s complete, I can see why it needed time. It speaks to being rooted when life gets loud. When the waters rise. When everything around you feels like it’s trying to shift your place, your peace, or your sense of self. There’s also a feeling of harvest in this piece. The kind that comes after hidden growth. The kind th

(A pharse we artists rarley say confidently...) From a thrift store unattractive blah, to an intertwined journey and lessons on letting go. Scarcity Sometimes the hardest thing to release isn’t the person, the place, or the thing itself. It’s who we believed we were with it. The version of us that felt chosen.Needed.Safe.Valuable. And when it’s time to let go, fear starts talking loud. “What if you never find this again?”“What if starting over is too hard?”“What if this was t