Driven to Direction
Original oil paint and ink on wood
24” × 48”
Created while traveling between shows, this piece captures the electricity of life on the road. A dancing figure leaps along a winding piano path toward a glowing horizon, surrounded by lightning, gardens, and music. The image was later used for the poster design for the Road to the Jubilee in Albany.
”Leaping down the road
Filled with electricity
Dancing through the gardens
A pathway of music lays ahead”
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Break Through the Wall
Oil paint and ink on wood
10“x22”
A surreal portrait of awakening, Break Through the Wall explores the moment someone begins to see beyond fear, masking, and emotional confinement. Through vivid color, symbolic arrows, and a fractured dreamlike landscape, the piece speaks to healing, liberation, and the courage it takes to rise toward something greater.
“She has lived in the wall wearing a mask so long
She doesnt know there is something greater out there
Just beyond the wall
Look, the sky, I can see it.
The sun is in the palm of your hand if you would just look!
Let’s pull the arrows from your heart and soul…
Let me get you up,
We can get out of here,
The sky looks so beautiful out there…
Just take off your mask and look…
Get up!“
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Without a Rose
Oil paint on wood
48” × 40”
A musician twists through rhythm and memory, fingers racing across the guitar while roses bloom and drift through the scene. The record spins behind him, but something essential is missing — the presence that once gave the music its sweetness.
“There is no music in the air.
The record spins but you are not there.
My hands can’t move faster for expression.
Replacing the sound would never be as sweet.
Longing for that…
No amount of time would ever make me complete.”
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Solitary Momentum
Oil paint and ink on canvas
36” × 16”
Solitary Momentum reflects the quiet tension between stillness and movement. The figure folds inward, gathering itself in a moment of pause, suggesting that true motion often begins from within. Through layered color, flowing form, and expressive marks, the piece explores the paradox that transformation and momentum are born not from constant motion, but from the courage to stop and reconnect with oneself.
“The motion that binds us
Is what me must be
In our place that is inside us
The creation of movement
Starts with stopping.”
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Dragon Sickness
Oil paint on wood •
24” × 18”
Dragon Sickness explores the consuming pull of desire and the quiet corrosion that can grow from it. The figure appears suspended between awareness and surrender, surrounded by drifting feathers and fields of color while gold pours across the surface like a seductive force. Through layered textures, dripping paint, and symbolic elements, the piece reflects the tension between longing for freedom and the intoxicating weight of what holds us in place.
“Just a little taste of ease
Let my gowns sway upon it
It’s all I can see while life passes away
Feathers drifting and glimmering in the pass
I can see you out there sky
But the Gold, It’s swimming in me”
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Past Dreams
Oil paint and ink on wood
24” × 24”
Past Dreams captures the fragile moment when transformation becomes unavoidable. A figure sits suspended between destruction and renewal as fire, wind, and growing branches surround her, suggesting the collapse of old realities and the emergence of something new. Through layered textures, symbolic elements, and shifting environments, the piece reflects the inevitability of change and the instinct to move toward light even as the world behind us falls away.
“The sky opens up with a wind of fire and ice, you can not control the change… Run towards the light because this dream is ending and the tunnel will soon collapse.”
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