• WHEN YOU’RE LOST IN THE DARK,

    hope is a choice.

    but how much hope is enough hope?

    i’ve been gluing my broken self (& all the other humans in the world) back together. for months now. || there exists, for each of us, a darkness. which we would never enter willingly. and be it private or public, literal or metaphorical, the only way out of this darkness, is in. and through. i wish us the courage to enter. to sit in it. to observe. to find and consider whatever is inside for finding. || for this is where the stars reside. this is where the days begin and where the strongest roots hold fast. this is where new life is conceived. in little bits.

    joined together in the dark.

  • acrylics, india inks, wire, graphite, glue and glass on birch panel

    36 x 144 inches

  • in no particular order. honestly.
    TITLE - AUTHOR - ABSTRACT/SUBTITLE

    • LEARNING TO WALK IN THE DARK - BARBARA BROWN TAYL0R - EXPLORING THE SPIRITUAL TREASURES OF DARKNESS: Because God Often Shows Up at Night

    • WINTERING - KATHERINE MAY - The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

    • ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE - ANTHONY DOERR - In the final days of WWII, the paths of a blind French girl and a German soldier collide...

    • COLLECTED POEMS 1956-1976 - DAVID WAGONER - the poem LOST - because lost is a place too

    • THE HOUSE OF BELONGING - DAVID WHYTE - the poem SWEET DARKNESS - on making one’s way through the dark night of the soul

    • THE RUTHLESS ELIMINATION OF HURRY - JOHN MARK COMER - How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World

    • TO SHAKE THE SLEEPING SELF - JEDIDIAH JENKINS - A 10,000-Mile Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and One Man's Quest to Wake Up the Soul

    • BECOMING MRS. LEWIS - PATTI CALLAHAN - The Improbable Love Story of Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis

    • SUPRISED BY JOY - C.S. LEWIS - The Shape of My Early Life

    • GRACE (EVENTUALLY) - ANNE LAMOTT - Thoughts on Faith

    • THE BOOK OF LONGINGS - SUE MONK KIDD - a novel set two thousand years ago - what if you were a woman, a writer, a soul longing for freedom?tion text goes here

  • in no particular order. honestly.
    TITLE - AUTHOR - ABSTRACT/SUBTITLE

    • WITH DARKNESS CAME STARS: A MEMOIR - AUDREY FLACK - Only in the darkest moments of our lives do the brightest stars appear.

    • PICASSO’S WAR - HUGH EAKIN - How Modern Art Came to America

    • THE FRIDAY NIGHT CLUB - Sofia Lundberg, Alyson Richman, & M.J. Rose - A Novel of Artist Hilma af Klint and Her Creative Circle

    • NINTH STREET WOMEN - MARY GABRIEL - Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art

    • THE ARTIST’S WAY - JULIA CAMERON - A SPIRITUAL PATH TO HIGHER CREATIVITY

    • FOURSOME - CAROLYN BURKE - The story of Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, Paul Strand, & Rebecca Salsbury

    • ALICE NEEL - PHOEBE HOBAN - The Art of Not Sitting Pretty

    • FIERCE POISE - ALEXANDER NEMEROV - Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York

    • BIG MAGIC - ELIZABETH GILBERT - Creative Living Beyond Fear

    • THE FLOWERING - JUDY CHICAGO - The Autobiography of Judy Chicago

    • HIDDEN POTENTIAL - ADAM GRANT - The Science of Achieving Greater Things

    • Z - THERESE ANNE FOWLER - A novel of Zelda Fitzgerald: novelist and painter

    • WALK THROUGH WALLS : A MEMOIR - MARINA ABRAVOMIC - Serbian performance artist exploring connection through physical endurance

    • THE LIVES OF LEE MILLER - ANTONY PENROSE - Surrealist artist/VOGUE photographer turned war correspondant in WWII, written by her son,

  • in no particular order. honestly.
    TITLE - AUTHOR - ABSTRACT/SUBTITLE

    • THESE TRUTHS - JILL LEPORE - A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

    • In the Garden of Beasts - ERIK LARSON - Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

    • KING: A LIFE - JONATHAN EIG - BIOGRAPHY OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

    • A FEVER IN THE HEARTLAND - TIMOTHY EGAN - The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

    • DEVIL IN THE GROVE - GILBERT KING - Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of A New America

    • THE SMALL AND THE MIGHTY - SHARON MCMAHON - TWELVE UNSUNG AMERICANS WHO CHANGED THE COURSE OF HISTORY: FROM THE FOUNDING TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

    • THE DEAMON OF UNREST - ERIK LARSON - A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

    • THE SPENDID AND THE VILE - ERIK LARSON - A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

    • YOU HAVE TO BE PREPARED TO DIE BEFORE YOU CAN BEGIN TO LIVE - PAUL KIX - Ten weeks in Birmingham that changed America

    • THE FIRE NEXT TIME - JAMES BALDWIN - A letter to Baldwin's nephew on the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation

    • THE WOMEN - KRISTIN HANNAH - A young woman’s experience as a military nurse in Vietnam

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