Inner Child Series.
The Inner Child series is a vibrant representation of being an adult, processing your childhood, and realizing the weight of the things you experienced then, years later. Finally understanding. The golden moments, the trauma, the moments that fall somewhere in between. How different does it feel to finally be an adult? Is it what your younger self expected?
I put my hands directly in the paint, spreading it on each canvas in the series with a limited use of “actual tools”. In my work, I remembered the feeling of my bare feet in warm grass in summer at my grandparents’ house, drawing on walls, cutting my hair off out of anger, not truly understanding what it meant to be older. I’m trying to go back to that little girl, so brave and daring. This series is all about pushing boundaries, not doing things the “right way”, making a mess. Being human.
This is an ode to the 1 and a half lb preemie baby, the curiosity of the child, the audaciousness of the teenager who I once was, unaware of all the types of caring there would be in the world right now.
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you paint like a child. acrylic, paint pen and gold metallic marker on 36x48 canvas. August 2021.
Uninhibited, acrylic paint and gold leaf foil on 36x48 canvas, August 2021.
To Della Louise, acrylic, gold leaf, and mica flakes on 24x36 canvas.
the golden moments i hold on to. acrylic, paint pen, and gold leaf on 36x48 canvas. August 2021.
summers in the field on hargett street. acrylic on 24x36 canvas.
child, you're allowed to dream. acrylic paint, paint pen, and silver mica flakes on 36x48 canvas.