Essays, poems, and paintings from an artist who lived the story first.
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This journal lives on Substack — essays, paintings, and poems rooted in myth, shadow, and the slow work of becoming whole. Below are three ongoing series. Find the thread that calls to you and follow it in.
Becoming Whole
five paintings. nine years. one journey.
"It's a story about nine years of unraveling — and what grew in the space where the armor used to be."
Grounded in the psychological framework of Toni Wolff's four feminine archetypes — and a fifth of my own — this series pairs five large-scale mixed media paintings with essays, personal stories, and poems. Each archetype has three posts: the deep dive, the painting reveal, and a poem. Fifteen pieces in all. It begins with a cancer diagnosis in 2016 and ends with a woman standing in her studio in Minnesota, finally knowing who she is.
Dear Me,
A Living Memoir Begins
“I didn’t set out to write a book. I set out to survive.”
What began as a private reckoning became a surrender to the voice I had silenced for too long.
Dear Me is a soul memoir publishing chapter by chapter on Substack — the long-form version of the journey the Becoming Whole paintings tell visually. New chapters publish as they're written.
The Red Shoes
A New Visual Series Begins
“It’s a story about soul famine. About the beautiful things we trade our creative lives for. About what happens when we forget we are wild — and what it takes to remember.”
Inspired by Women Who Run With the Wolves by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, this visual series pairs paintings with reflections on the traps, truths, and turning points of the Red Shoes myth — and how they live in me.
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