I was always told I couldn't be a artist, so I became a nurse. Now I need art more than ever, it keeps me in love with an ugly world.
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Using Watercolor, my art explores the disconnect between our biological design and the modern environments we inhabit. I create surrealist pieces that place elements of the natural world into jarring, everyday settings - like a woman with a mushroom head sitting in a fluorescent-lit diner. Through these 'odd' juxapositions, I visualize the feeling of living unnaturally and highlight the beauty of the wild trying to reclaim it's space in a ridgid world.
Where do you find inspiration?I find insiration in everything. I keep food wrappers for color combinations...explore my yard, forests, creeks and rivers for natural inspirations. And, largly I lean on my spirituality, I simply feel like we live against how we were created to live. On a planet with everything we need, we somehow decided that humans could do better, and all we did was screw it up.
What would you do with $25,000?I would use this money to help grow my art business, in hopes of eventually being able to leave nursing; giving me much more time to spend with my family.
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