Sensations
2019 - 2020I come back to the words "sensations" and "unbreaking" to describe this era – some kind of waking up, and dissolution. Making contact with the mundane and mystical, exploring my inner world, and finding space for creative exploration.
2019 was the year I stopped working for others and left a relationship where I had given more to my partner than to myself. This era became a homecoming. The "sensations" series emerged from my nights spent with Photoshop, using skills from my graphic design work to manipulate my external world through the kaleidoscope of my experience.
COVID became an unexpected blessing, allowing my exploration to expand beyond the digital realm. Living in New York, I had felt constrained from exploring the physical world of material and body. I craved privacy, nature, space – with COVID, that's exactly what I got.
During this time, I began yoga teacher training, becoming enamored with the subtle body and making unseen experiences visible. When chronic hip pain emerged, I painted on my body to externalize this hidden sensation. I began painting spirals with my period blood, tracking my cycle's unfurling through time. This exploration of mortality, death, and shedding responded to my earlier "Hang Ups" era – finally stepping away from the world I had critiqued, making my way back to myself.
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