My artwork also focuses on and functions as a therapy for anxiety and trauma. When I get lost in the creative process I am able to look at my anxiety as outside of myself, a way of reconnecting to my authentic truth. Creating provides a state of peace and one of the most satisfying things I have ever experienced is witnessing another person find their own state of peace through the viewing of my work.

I now understand anxiety as a dialogue with my physical body which is informing me when I’m out of touch with the energies flowing around and within me. The act of painting and creating becomes a method of separating myself from my anxieties while channeling and exploring variations of displaying my experience to an external world that is in need of its own healing. I believe that sharing my own practices of healing will give hope to others that they can find these methods in their own lives and heal themselves too.

All of these issues intertwine and become a storyboard of lived experiences, literally painting a picture of a life lived through and healing from traumas and challenges amok. If we all seek to understand these healing as a shift from victimization towards a whole and unified, healed person I believe that we will all know that we can collectively heal one another by sharing our experience.

Through my examination of the human body, questions of the perceptions of physical challenges, how someone views injury and illness, arise.  My questions then serve as a platform for me to address discontent with the misinterpretations of disability. Invisible illnesses such as mental health, post-traumatic stress disorder and the varying physical symptoms that cannot be seen just by looking at someone become a conversation developed through art. All of these things lay hidden, waiting to be explored by wanderers.