the Better Together Exhibit


As an artist, I travel around the world connecting cross-culturally with diverse communities, alongside others through creativity, joining in conversations with people from all walks of life and diversity of backgrounds. I enjoy listening to people's stories of who they are. Sharing human to human, heart to heart. And no matter where I've traveled I've learned that we as humans (regardless of age, race, gender, culture, religion) have more in common than we differ. We all have a desire to belong...belong to our family, to our tribe, to our community, to our world. There is an innate understanding that we are a part of something much bigger than ourselves. And we all have a desire to know who we are...to know who we are in relation to our family, our tribe, our community, our world. The innate understanding that we are individually important within the bigger something.

This exhibit is an exploration through mixed media abstract expressionist paintings that embraces the topic that we are better together. Not separate and alone. When we are brave to drop our masks of performance and pride, break down the walls built by fear and paint that divide us, admit that we all experience sorrow, loss, fear, pain, joy, faith, hope, and love...If we can stay open to seeing and hearing each other...really seeing and hearing, and reach out to each other in genuine gratitude, forgiveness and humility...we will become who we are meant to be. 

THE PAINTINGS:


Better Together
24x30 mixed media on canvas
Original SOLD. 
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Hands and hearts intertwined like redwood roots in community. We are better together helping each other rather than as isolated individuals.


Join the Conversation
24x30 mixed media on canvas
Original $636. 
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The invitation is open for engagement with each others lives. We each have the same feelings and needs, the same pain and sorrow, the same joys and hopes. It's our choice to enter in human to human with each other. 


Gather: Taste and See
24x30 mixed media on canvas
Original SOLD
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The table is an open invitation to gather together. The pomegranate is a symbol of shared brokenness and opportunity to give and receive.


Abide In Me
24x30 mixed media on canvas
Original SOLD. 
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Belonging. To be at home within that embrace. Seen. Heard. Accepted for who we are. We must belong to ourselves to belong to each other. 


Interchange
24x30 mixed media on canvas
Original SOLD. 
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The exchange of thoughts and ideas. The moment of risk to trust each other with who we are. 


Ubuntu Ohana
24x30 mixed media on canvas
Original $636. 
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Ubuntu is an African word that means: I Am Because We Are. Ohana is a Hawaiian word that means:  several plants with a common root, extended family, intentional, bound together cooperating and remembering one another. The abstract plumeria flower in the background is a symbol of welcome and inclusion. The painting is inspired by the story of some children in an African tribe that chose to share a reward of treats together rather than compete against each other for individual gain. 


Reach
24x30 mixed media on canvas
Original NOT FOR SALE. 
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Reaching to each other beyond our differences. The willingness to lean into our weaknesses for good of the whole. 


Collaboration Convergence
24x30 mixed media on canvas
Original SOLD. 
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When we agree to work together we can accomplish so much more for the good of each other. 


Push-Push Back
24x30 mixed media on canvas
Original SOLD. 
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Life pushes. We push back. Life pushes back. Sometimes our efforts lead to light. Sometimes our efforts lead to darkness. It's all a part of the process of living life, of being human. We must choose to engage with it, no matter how difficult it can be at times, in order to move forward, to rise strong through it all, to be the best I so we can be the best we. 

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