The need to create has always been there since I was a little girl. It is a primal one, not an academic one, which is why I chose to, for the most part, skip the academic route aside from a couple of classes. It always felt like the best classroom was in the studio, doing the work and following my intuition, and then the words would come later. Sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't. More often, they don't since they have had four concussions and a permanent Brain Injury Disability since 2004. With that said, I am primarily drawn to color, shapes, and movement in that order, but not all the time. I think it is important to give the color space to breathe to be understood and really seen and not crowded too much. I like to give it room to dance, to move, to let the viewer imagine what the painting could have looked like seconds before it was finished and, if it was alive, what it could have looked like moments after it was created. This, I feel, describes my earlier works. In staying true to my nature as a person and artist, I evolve to let more complex structures into my life, like my recent Disjointed Reality body of work and its derivative Worn & Torn. My works encapsulate putting back my 'disjointed' life' since finally being stable enough after many years of instability since acquiring my brain injury. Even though I feel 'worn & torn' because of life's challenges, I still chose to create something meaningful, something beautiful, instead of getting caught up in 'what might have been.'