Gifted
To give a part of yourself unknown to most: your perspective, your view of others. How you see the ones you love, how you interpret their presence in your life. Gifted is a lifelong project, marked by a process of creating and connecting.
Grace
A Space for Holding, oil and wax on canvas, 2026
I saw her glancing toward it whenever she graced my studio. A gentle holding within her eyes, a gentleness that it deserved. The colors, reminiscent of her sculptures: yellows and light watery blues, natural forms, tendrils of harmony and peace. She needed to have it.
When I gave it to her, she told me it felt like god, that she could see the curves of women within it, cracking open the world and creating it from itself.
Ainsley
She Laughed and Laughed, oil and wax on canvas, 2025
Wilbert
To Stretch the Sun, oil on drop cloth, 2025
A gift made in retrospect. As my grandfather lay dying, his son searched his belongings for remnants of his life: passwords to bank accounts, information on bills, medical documents, etc. In the stacks of folders and files, he found a small unassuming notebook containing times. The date of the day, the time the sun rose, and the time the sun set. For years, every day, my grandfather was a tracker. A man of science and of the stars. A man obsessed with the rotation of the Earth, unaware our world stopped spinning when he left us.
On the day he died, I sat in my studio and painted the sun elongated. It was my hope that I could stretch it out, and delay his sunshine from ever having to set at all
Marissa
She Laughed and Laughed, oil and wax on canvas, 2025
Jesse
To Stretch the Sun, oil on drop cloth, 2025