This week, I found myself inspired by quiet moments. The kind that don’t ask for anything — they just arrive softly. In that stillness, something new came through in my art.
The latest ACEOs I created felt vulnerable, unexpected, and emotional. They weren’t planned. They came from a more subconscious place, and when that happens, the imagery sometimes feels a little… unfiltered. A little unusual. Elements of nature and human qualities blending together — an eye where it shouldn’t be, a mouth hidden in a bloom, a shape that feels more like a feeling than a body.
These are the pieces that go beyond words or literal explanation. They carry something that can’t be neatly described. You can feel the hurt, the curiosity, the longing inside them — and that is a reflection of me.
I think that’s why they feel so vulnerable to share. When art comes from that deep inner place, it doesn’t come with a comforting layer of distance. It’s not masked. It’s not “safe.” It’s the kind of art that exposes rather than performs.
But maybe that’s the point.
Not everything that lives inside us is tidy or logical or easy to name. Some emotions arrive sideways, in symbols or fragments, and the only way they know how to surface is through color, shape, and instinct.
These pieces came from those quiet places — and in releasing them into the world, I’m learning to trust that the people who need them will understand… not with their minds, but with something deeper.
This is also how my Inner Realms Mini-Series emerged — small portals into those quieter, unseen emotional spaces.
