Witnessing is the work

My work is about witnessing. Each piece is a living record of attention given and received.

I draw from a live model. I sit with an individual and I witness them. Vulnerable. Embodied. Present.

I'm also a therapist. And I've come to realize that these two practices are actually very similar. Someone shares themselves with you. Uninhibited and unarmed. And you sit. And you witness. And you reflect them back to themselves.

That's really the whole practice.

Then I take the piece home. I place it in the corner of my drawing space. And I sit with it. Sometimes at three in the morning. In the dark. I let my inner world use the piece to talk to me. My imagination space opens up and says — here. A color. A shape. A movement. And I begin to draw around it.

Then my kids see it. And they give very honest feedback. My husband sees it. My friends comment. And I let all of that in. I let my relationships show up in these pieces. So what you're looking at is not just mine. It's a layered witnessing. The model. My inner world. My people. Each one leaving something behind in the work.

I think a lot about what I call the oppressed feminine. Not a gender — an energy that lives in all of us. Moon energy. Receptive. Collaborative. Intuitive. Rooted in felt experience rather than dominance or control.

Our culture has suppressed this way of knowing in favor of hierarchy and speed and intellect. And we've become disconnected. From ourselves. From each other. From the earth.

My work invites a return to that. And I've realized — the process itself is the practice. Sitting. Receiving. Letting the work come through relationship rather than control. The feminine isn't just the subject. It's how the work gets made.

So now you're here. And you're part of it. This work is a path I'm on — a constant practice of relating, reflecting, and honoring what comes through. It's no longer just in my hands. Now we're all part of it.