Throughout the last year, especially after my country did not follow a strict quarantine that could have slowed down the pandemic dramatically, I remember telling my bestie, ‘I can’t let myself get my hopes up anymore - just to have them be crushed so completely.  So in my mind I keep telling myself that this pandemic will never end.  We are stuck like this.  Figure out a way to move forward in this new situation.’

Today is the first day I have allowed myself a tiny crack of hope. Yesterday I got my first COVID-19 vaccination shot and today my husband got his and finally I have let myself feel the first tiny sliver of hope in nearly a year.

I am working on a new collection and in short, these paintings express how my brain felt during the last year. Lots of ups and downs. A deep calming within myself under the surface and while I’m at home and safe away from others. Then the complete anxiety and feeling of chaos of being in public with people who could get me sick or who I could get sick without knowing it.

The color combinations and brush stokes come from deep within my soul. My process involves lots of deep breathing, meditation, and listening to the inner voice.  These paintings are the culmination of the feelings and thoughts in my head from the last year of the global pandemic.

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