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Our dates connected us: to each other, to nature, to color.

They connected me to the meditative practice of painting, which I had never really done and now practice almost daily.

This collective project connects me to many humans I don’t know, but who are undoubtedly beautiful because they were chosen by you.

August 16, 2020

Farnsworth House

September 4, 2019

Gompers Park

July 20, 2020

in person remote cemetery for Dana

“Large ceremonial plaza. Too much on my mind. Tiny table. Painting shining white columns and a patinated bronze buffalo. I hate this chair. People meet to rehearse in the park. The leader has a bullhorn? Spilled my mixing tray. Watercolor is annoying if you try to do something with it. Leslie is effortless as usual.”

August 6, 2019

Humboldt Park

June 9, 2021

Humboldt Park

I miss my mom, everyday, in all seasons. She is with me in my heart but I go to the Chicago Botanic Gardens to think and pray and cry, when I’m feeling lonely and miss her. My spirituality and connection to her spirit and God now comes through flowers and plants and watching the colorful and inexplicable cycle of life continue it’s brutal and always again beautiful pattern

August 3, 2019

Botanical Gardens

Plein Speech

a painting
a break
a chance

denial
of discipline
of meeting in muddy gray

beyond the orange-pink pond
under the red tree’s severed limbs
of terror

May 16, 2018

Humboldt Park

Table set, Zooming
Blank paper wants color, action
Familiar looks new

Excited to paint
Look outside, inside bubble
Cactus, window, car.

In the April sun
Observation connection
Children like this too

Despite pandemic
A way to share space and time
Unexpected view

April 10, 2020

Remote Oak Park

I am super grateful I had the opportunity to go paint with you in that beautiful place. It was a little bit of a kick start for me and got me interested in painting again, although I haven’t been doing much lately. But I’m looking forward to getting to do this with you again one day. Maybe even next year.

May 27, 2018

Garfield Park Conservatory

Humid in the blizzard,
soaked on the paper,
the talk of fluorescence just outside the prussian blue, inside the cacti green.

January 6, 2019

Garfield Park Conservatory

December 29, 2017

Garfield Park Conservatory

We sat in the desert
A desert surrounded in glass
We sat in a desert
And built a canopy of thought

February 8, 2019

Garield Park Conservatory