Mixed Media
Bee Still
Artist Statement:
Bee Still is a portrait and a landscape of my felt experience through the COVID-19 pandemic. It captures the layers of a unique but shared human experience from all angles – the internal and external environment as well as the positive and negative associations.
Shhhh...I Know Best
Artist Statement:
Disabilities from a car accident rendered me invisible. I was made to feel like I didn’t belong anymore - even in conversations about my own health. This piece is about capturing that felt experience and frustration.
My hope is that this piece will inspire those that feel silenced to speak up and for those that stopped listening to start. A basic human need is to feel seen and heard and having a disability shouldn’t change that but it certainly did for me.
Don’t Put Me in a Box
Artist Statement:
Having a disability is like having a superpower – you can see and experience the world in a way others can’t even comprehend yet. Unfortunately, people automatically put you in a box that is perceived as a disadvantage. This piece is about challenging the limiting expectations on people with disabilities.
Personally, I have felt my abilities and worth being questioned but I have only been dis-abled by the restrictive nature and limiting beliefs of others. My hope is that the conversation around disabilities can finally change from a negative one of how we’re different to “normal” to a positive one embracing our differences.
This artwork has been sold.