If You Can't Keep Up with Me, 36×48, 2024
The composition moves with visible urgency, layering warm ochres, saturated magentas, and soft peachy oranges against passages of white and a concentrated mass of near-black at the centre. The lower half loosens into looping, gestural marks that suggest momentum and release, while the upper register holds a denser, more compressed energy. The tension between those two zones gives the work a sense of internal rhythm. It would read well in a contemporary interior where scale and colour are meant to anchor a room rather than simply fill it.
From the Wild collection, 2024. Featured in Curatory Magazine and Circle Quarterly Magazine.
From the artist's journal:
"A woman around the fire asked if she should slow down, if she should measure her steps to keep pace with others seeking growth so they were not left behind. I screamed through the flames, No! We make ourselves small, we wait for the right moment, we try so hard not to make others uncomfortable with our brilliance. I am finished with delaying my journey, with covering my light, with softening my voice. I race through my days gathering up as much knowledge and understanding as I possibly can. Creativity explodes out of me in great waves. I am in this life for my own expansion, and I cannot be slowed down by others. I will not. I will be bright and loud, passionate and vulnerable. I will try in every way to live this one life with my full participation. Those who can keep up are welcome. Those who watch from miles behind are welcome. Those ahead of me are welcome. But the steps I take, the pace I keep, the terrain I chose to race across is chosen solely by me."
If You Can't Keep Up with Me, 36×48, 2024
The composition moves with visible urgency, layering warm ochres, saturated magentas, and soft peachy oranges against passages of white and a concentrated mass of near-black at the centre. The lower half loosens into looping, gestural marks that suggest momentum and release, while the upper register holds a denser, more compressed energy. The tension between those two zones gives the work a sense of internal rhythm. It would read well in a contemporary interior where scale and colour are meant to anchor a room rather than simply fill it.
From the Wild collection, 2024. Featured in Curatory Magazine and Circle Quarterly Magazine.
From the artist's journal:
"A woman around the fire asked if she should slow down, if she should measure her steps to keep pace with others seeking growth so they were not left behind. I screamed through the flames, No! We make ourselves small, we wait for the right moment, we try so hard not to make others uncomfortable with our brilliance. I am finished with delaying my journey, with covering my light, with softening my voice. I race through my days gathering up as much knowledge and understanding as I possibly can. Creativity explodes out of me in great waves. I am in this life for my own expansion, and I cannot be slowed down by others. I will not. I will be bright and loud, passionate and vulnerable. I will try in every way to live this one life with my full participation. Those who can keep up are welcome. Those who watch from miles behind are welcome. Those ahead of me are welcome. But the steps I take, the pace I keep, the terrain I chose to race across is chosen solely by me."
