This teapot belonged to my husband’s grandmother, who recently passed away. Her name was Cora Ann Ray. She and her family had a significant impact on my life, long before I was born. They were the kind of people who shared life with their neighbors and looked out for others in their Archer City, TX, community, including my grandmother and my father. In college, I met and married her grandson. Our families, we discovered, had known each other for over 50 years. At some point, I began to associate Cora Ann with this teapot that I would always see at her house. It sat in her white china cabinet, and it had belonged to her mother. So, whenever I look at this teapot, it reminds me to appreciate simple things and how much difference can be made over a pot of tea - by loving your neighbor and being a friend.

16"x16" acrylic painting on canvas. SOLD

This work is part of an ongoing body of work entitled “Trophy Mount/Urban Arrowhead Collection”. The concept of this series is the collection and exhibition of cast off and found objects that are a reflection of what they once were in their original state.

15" x 24" Mixed Media. $475

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This work is part of an ongoing body of work entitled “Trophy Mount/Urban Arrowhead Collection”. The concept of this series is the collection and exhibition of cast off and found objects that are a reflection of what they once were in their original state.

9" x 35" Mixed Media. $525

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"Birdhouse of My Soul" is a house-shaped sculpture created for a spiritual ritual to bring prosperity to me and my loved ones, and is considered in some spiritual practices to be a "prosperity spell nest". Each object inside of the nest in the center represents one of my loved ones. All of these artifacts are imbued with memories of a specific time in my life, having been personally collected throughout many years. This piece also examines my relationship to what most people would consider trash, and the security it brings me. "Birdhouse of My Soul" exhibits a positive change in my evolution as an artist, in both theme and medium, by exploring the possibilities of creating sculptures.

6.5" tall, 6" wide and 2" deep, mixed media, NFS

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"Hold Them Close" is a house-shaped sculpture inspired by the current relationship I have with my loved ones, and the experiences we share. Composed of sentimental artifacts I have gathered throughout my life from family and friends, this piece aims to evoke nostalgia of happier times. "Hold Them Close" exhibits a positive change in my evolution as an artist, in both theme and medium, by exploring the possibilities of sculpture.

8" tall, 8" wide and 2" deep / 2.5 lbs / mixed media NFS

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First Nature Journey, I captured this 'moment' on my daughter's first journey to the trail which I've visited and taken photos at for over 12 years. She likes to carry the same photo gear and wonder as her Dad. Capturing this moment, told me she was bound to be a nature lover as well.

5 x 7, Digital photo on Paper. NFS

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These two artworks are from a series of pieces that create metaphorical narratives associated with selections from the Lives of the Saints. Saint Magnus of Füssen and Saint Dwyn are both transparent watercolor paintings. Saint Magnus of Füssen illustrates that he is the patron saint you appeal to if your home is infested with mice, rats, insects, etc. The creatures in the painting are plastic toy pieces from an old game called, “Cootie”. Saint Dwyn is the patron of sick animals.

The paintings are still lives that are constructed inside of a small, wooden, puppet theatre. The interiors and facades are draped and wrapped with shiny, reflective fabrics, and bright colored subjects populate the environments. The paintings are whimsical, colorful, and amusing. An eclectic dialogue is created among the absurd associations that are cacophonous, disjointed, and irreverent.

$3500

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These two artworks are from a series of pieces that create metaphorical narratives associated with selections from the Lives of the Saints. Saint Magnus of Füssen and Saint Dwyn are both transparent watercolor paintings. Saint Magnus of Füssen illustrates that he is the patron saint you appeal to if your home is infested with mice, rats, insects, etc. The creatures in the painting are plastic toy pieces from an old game called, “Cootie”. Saint Dwyn is the patron of sick animals.

The paintings are still lives that are constructed inside of a small, wooden, puppet theatre. The interiors and facades are draped and wrapped with shiny, reflective fabrics, and bright colored subjects populate the environments. The paintings are whimsical, colorful, and amusing. An eclectic dialogue is created among the absurd associations that are cacophonous, disjointed, and irreverent.

$3500

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All of my love stories involve a mix tape or two. The kind with stickers and a cheesy title like, Serious Love Songs Vol. 5. Achieving the perfect mix took work. Listening to the radio waiting for that perfect song so that I could hit record at the perfect moment felt important. If I could collect the most magical songs then he would know how much I loved him. I was cleaning out a drawer recently and I found a tape that said, “To Ginger, Merry Christmas 1996. I love you!” It warmed my heart and made me a little embarrassed that we were so ridiculous. He doesn’t make me mix tapes any more. That’s not the true measure of love like it once was. Now showing love is emptying the dishwasher or taking our kid to practice.

11” x 14” Watercolor. SOLD

This painting is in response to a medical diagnosis for my grandfather and his heart condition before he passed. I began to think of how to make an image that was beautiful but also contained decay. Over the course of remedies, he was given a pacemaker and various blood thinners for his condition, only to slow the wear and further damage. While not a true representation of his device, I became interested in the interactions taking place between the painted elements of the heart, cracks, and wires.

Bypass, 24 x 24 in, oil on panel, $ 700

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In this painting I combine the elements of the congested crowd of people with the graphic elements in the background. While pulled directly from earthquake mapping, this graph visually echoes other ways to track health or financial status of individuals suggested as a downward movement from left to right. The idea of the computer and mouse intrigues me as an object I find myself using an as extension of my own hand, but also as a means to turn unseen abstract data into numbers and then into a visual language. This "data" is represented through flatter forms in the work, while the object that presents this data, the mouse, is painted in more naturalistic size, light, and volume.

24 x 24 in, oil on panel, $ 700

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I created this portrait plate after having had lunch with my friend Jim. During our lunch together, we felt safe enough with each other to discuss both politics and religion. I feel like that’s really saying something. More than all that, though, Jim is a pleasant soul.

7.5x7.5” Underglaze painting on ceramic plate. $200

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This plate memorializes a specific meal I had with my friend and former coworker, BC while I was doing my portrait plate project. It also memorializes our friendship and the countless meals and conversations we have had together.

13"x10.5" Underglaze drawing on Ceramic Plate $200

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This work is about how materialism and advertising in contemporary culture affect our memories. The work is a re-imagining of a sentimental memory spent with a person, but the objects remembered from that memory are in the foreground, while the image of the person's face is subjugated into the background and partially erased. The objects serve as a means of triggering a recollection of the memory spent with a particular person, yet the visual memory of the person itself remains suspended between the tangible and intangible. Perhaps it means the person is too dynamic or important to the viewer to be encapsulated in a still, objectified image. Perhaps it means the physical objects have overridden the real importance of the memory. Either way, the objects serve as a means of triggering a recollection of memory and allowing the viewer to reflect on this subjective, personal sentiment of someone else's past.

Digital Photography 16x20. $200

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This digital painting printed on plexiglass features two favorite toys from my earliest childhood memories. Together in a sort of pun, they remind me of something I wish I knew back then... to bravely be myself.

24x24x3, plexiglass and metal $500

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Inspired by David Bowie and retro toy robots of the 50’s and 60’s, this piece was born from an “archeological dig.” I found old broken toys behind and old abandoned house and put them together... mementos from the children who once lived in the oldest house in Munday Texas.

12x12x2, wood and found objects SOLD

異なるビジョン different vision

同じ悟り same realization

不思議 wonder

共有された一体感。a shared sense of unity.

I've decided to translate the inscription for this one. While taking pictures at the train tracks I looked down to see the broken device. I begin to wonder what the moments were like when this device reached this destination. Almost as if to wish to share the other person's eyes. And in that moment I have what Zen calls a Satōri. A moment of pure and sometimes frightening awareness. It was a very moving and existential moment. A sense of yūgen came over me to understand that this moment is fleeting; to try and grasp the very moment of occurrence. But, the beauty lies in the transcendent motion of my current place and time. Another perspective shared for an item. I understood all things contain that same nature, and that is how I was connected.

3x5 notecard/ Ballpoint pen SOLD

A co-worker became a close friend after an out of town work event. I am a bit of a hermit but on a whim of spontaneity I decided to accept an invitation to commute and hang out with Lukas. We spoke alot and the topic of Ramen came about. After the event, we found a Ramen shop where I was able to share vivid memories of my pops Kai Senpai and the bowls of Ramen he would make me. It was freeing in a way I can't grasp other than the picture I made of this cactus. It is like a flashbulb memory to me. Not only was I able to share I was able to learn.

3x5 notecard/ Ballpoint pen $100

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This image was constructed around an old photo of my grandmother which I found in a drawer. My grandfather was an avid hobby photographer but a terrible record keeper, so we have literally thousands of these random, unexplained photos lying around. This particular photo appealed to me in how it reminded me of my grandmother's complete fearlessness in living her life.

16" x 16" digital print on archival paper. $175

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This image began with the photo of my grandmother and her niece walking a pet bunny in the Schlossgarten in Vienna, which has always amused me with its whimsy. I was inspired by the combination of movement and stillness in the snapshot to try to convey that same sense in the landscape: a combination of open airiness and grounded solidity.

16" x 16" (framed) digital print on archival paper

$175

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My mother would always say "la vida nunca es justa per debemos presionar por lo que queremos y merecemos en nuestras vidas."-Life is never fair but we must push for what we want and deserve in our lives.

SOLD

This phonograph is a memento of the times when we were growing up in the 50's. We were swayed by the evolution of Rock n Roll music and new styles of dancing. Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, The Beach Boys, Paul Revere and The Raiders plus many others helped us transition into a new era of being cool. Forty-five records and a phonograph, that' all you needed to let the sounds take you away into a life of fun and dreams.

24 x 24 - oil on canvas. $1700

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Growing up Church of Christ filled me with questions about religion in general. The Bible has been written, rewritten and altered in many ways by the hand of man. Chapters have been left out or added and words have been changed depending on the publisher. For this piece I used pages of an older Catholic version of a Bible. Highlighted verses deal with issues like racism, hatred, judgment and how to treat others. I tried to leave as much text visible as possible, in an attempt to tell the broader story of the featured verse. The message is: It is time to make a choice. The butterflies represent which choice one will make, the red pill or the blue pill. The orbs can be seen as the struggles of the past, present and future.

15 x 22, Mixed media, Bible pages and acrylic on panel. $150

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This panel continues our narrative of social change. I changed the color of my butterflies. One is green with yellow dots, meaning it is time to change yet we must do it with caution. The other is yellow with red dots, warning us that change has to be made by not reliving our past, but not forgetting the pain of our history. Together, the four butterflies create another circle. Circle of life, of never ending options and choices, always growing and changing, the struggle to be a better person in a world full of hate and anger.

15 x 22 Mixed media, Bible pages and acrylic on panel $150

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In the fifties, my grandfather, “Gang-Gang,” had a Magnolia filling station. With this station an ice house was attached from which every weekday morning workers would stop by to fill their water coolers with ice and water. In the late fifties, he quit selling gas but kept the station as kind of a forerunner to a convenience store. He sold ice, soda pop, candy, bread, chocolate milk, etc., plus watermelons when in season. He had picnic tables, and on weekend nights, they would be full of people eating sliced watermelon served on salmon-colored metal trays. This tray brings back memories of working on Saturday nights, listening to station KSYD on the radio. As guests left, we threw rinds into metal trash cans. All this sweetness brought bees and wasps out the next day. My brother and I fought off many a stinging monster with our rolled-up newspapers.

16”x20” Mixed Media. $150

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Reminiscent of the time spent in Alabama at Tuskegee University

Oil on canvas board, 16x20, $350

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In studio.

Sitting.

Listening.

Seeing.

Welcoming refreshed eyesight after cataract surgery to explore, explain, expose.

Even on drive from casa to studio, familiar streets and building appeared as images in retrospect.

Time takes.

Time gives.

Feels like all around me is that younger self.

She who navigated uncharted circumstances.

Who be that woman now, tempered

By the aging of life’s continuous

uncertainties.

The Year of Magical Thinking is Joan Didion’s memoir about blindsided by death. This memento assemblage records my vicarious experience of surrounding episodes.

Artist friend: Join me, plein air workshop, Isle of Palms, favorite family getaway.

Two weeks later: artist friend’s brother died, shockingly unexpected. Oddly, I was finishing Didion’s memoir. We go paint, she to cherish her memories there of him.

Three months later: spontaneous tickets, memoir’s theatrical version. Vanessa Redgrave’s austere eloquence gives sharp life to variety of moods.

Artist friend: silent cries in darkened theatre.

12x9 inches, mixed media assemblage on paper $1100

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For one record to bring such a flood of 60's teenage memories, it would have to be, of course, a Beatles record ! I had been a fan for a few years, but after seeing their movie "HELP!" I was super smitten. To my parents unhappiness I played this record non-stop. My dad actually bought me a second 45 because he knew I was wearing out the first. I feel fortunate to have been a teen during the Beatlemania era. It shaped my love of music, the way I dressed, and how I danced. It was the happiest of times, when I was 16.

Mixed Media, 15x15 $250

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My husband and I travel to breweries as a fun urban exploration of the places we visit. These boots were present at one of the breweries in Dallas, TX. They are a reminder of the work put into the beers we drink on these trips. I think of these boots often as they remind me of these moments where we set off on an adventure and connect with strangers where we share our passions. A love of photography and a love of beer. This is a moment, I hold with me. To me it signifies love.

33x23, $125

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This! This moment! We connected. During the Me Too Movement, I connected with all these stories of women sharing their pasts, their moments where they realized "ME TOO". I lost my virginity to rape when I was 15. This photograph reflects all of this time for me and many others. It shows a kind of "F you" to those who were and are offenders. We are more than what happened to us. It shows that we are a part of a system we never wanted to be a part of, a trauma we never wanted to live. We are young. We proudly move forward. We can tell our stories and not be ashamed. It is not our fault, even if we didn't scream loud enough, even if no one believed. We are strong. We are women who will no longer feel afraid.

33" x 23" $125

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Painting represents a brief time where I experienced some very strong sadness due to a life change.

16x20 Oil on canvas $520

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Represents peaceful day on the west coast a place that my daughter and I frequent.

16x20 Oil on Canvas $520

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Tarnished, based on a Rosalba Carriera portrait, is concerned about the topics of beauty, aging, sexual desire, and the value of a woman. Carriera drew this young woman, whom would be desired for her beauty, which would fade rapidly. Carriera herself, in French and art historical texts, were judged for her own lack of beauty but excused by her hard work and talent. The egg, a symbol for Philosopher's Stone or life, is unfertilized and thrown onto the portrait to vandalize the praise of male desire. For many women, we have been judged FIRST for our appearance and availability and only our hard work is considered SECOND, or even then, our hard work and experience could be considered dangerous.

9"x12" Oil on Panel. $600

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Sweetness Fades is based on a Goya portrait of a woman that is on the cusp of losing youth. In present day, women are still considered less valuable as they gain age and experience and for many of us, we struggle with a certain bitterness in our lives. The male gaze and desire are still factors in how we are viewed including for our careers and jobs.

8" x 10", Oil on Panel, $900

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The pieces of metal this sculpture contains are mementos from my 100+yr. old family farm. Collected over the past eight years from plows and machinery used by my grandpa & great grandpa, they are my loving tribute to their hard work and determination in working this land. Three years ago I was disabled in a car accident and had to reinvent myself. This sculpture represents my growth both spiritually and physically since that time. My connection to these objects and the land from which they came defines my very being. My soul lives here.

10 3/4"L x 6 1/4"W x 16"H, mixed media $500

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Though many of us cling to physical items, in my mind the most meaningful mementos are those that arise from conception. In the case of my mother, I was told several times as a child that I was a "miracle baby." Not only was I the youngest child by 6 years, but also the only boy for which she was willing to try "one more time." My mother also expressed that she almost miscarried several times while pregnant with me. On the other side of the coin, I was the last vestige or "memento" of a failing marriage. My response to this gloomy tale is inappropriate humor. Hence, why I created a self-portrait through the cycle of conception in a magical uterus.

16x20 Digital Print. $150

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"Your Blood in My Veins" is a fiber arts Memento Mori for my mother. My mother stopped breathing; she lay in a coma for weeks as we looked for signs of brain activity, for some hope of recovery. In this agonizing time, I had double knee surgery for a pre-existing condition. The piece is composed the gauze that covered my wounds. I sat at her bedside, the gauze soaking up my own life's essence as Mom's trickled away. My sister and I eventually had to sign to unplug our mother from all the machines. We watched, silently, as her skin turned from reddish to pale yellow and her hypoxic blood turned cold.

44" x 16" gauze and the artist's blood. NFS

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Grasp symbolizes the clawing ascent out of mental darkness. The hand reaches into light as the dark breaks away.

Clay and resin on canvas 10" x 10" , SOLD

The live show becomes a moment that you want to capture and hold on to forever. You can write it down. You can tell stories at parties for years. You can record it but nothing gets back to that original feeling. Recording a bootleg was the closest you could get to recreating that moment. It wasn't the perfect sound. The recording, an unreliable narrator, but a bootleg is the closest thing we can get to keeping our hazy memories.

Mixed Media. NFS