Live painted at Karnival of the Arts East 2026 and on stage with HoneyComb Oil paint on cut-out wood 48 × 48 inches Original artwork
We’re constantly looking for the things that make life worth living. We’re told, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade—as if the difficult parts of being alive are simply something to fix, sweeten, or turn into something more palatable.
But maybe life doesn’t give you lemons.
Life is your lemons.
The pain, the love, the happiness, the despair—all of it belongs. Every feeling carries its own kind of beauty, and every part of the experience can become something we use, transform, and carry forward.
Life Is Lemons embraces the whole strange, beautiful mess of being alive rather than waiting for life to become sweet.
