Inspiration:

At first glance, it's a butterfly on a tree. Or perhaps a tiger or a bird. But if you look at it from another angle, it's two faces looking at each other. It resembles our connection to nature and our connection to perspective. Do we really see each other or are we missing the truth in what we are looking at because we can't see it through our own perspective? Can we look at the same thing more than once and see things completely differently because our perspective has changed? Perspective is illusionary. It can be what stands in the way of us seeing what we are supposed to see.

What role does art play in your life?

Art is what connects me to my emotions, my past and my future. Art is a way I say the things my words can't. It is an expression of my inner self that no one else sees.

Artist statement:

Through my last 10+ years of incarceration, connection has been a major catalyst. In dealing with the emotions that go along with connections - both forming them and breaking them- art has been my greatest tool. As I think back, art has been a central part of my entire life in so many forms. I am a daughter, sister, mother, friend and also an inmate. I am from a rural country town that connects me to nature. Now I live in brick and mortar. Art takes me back to every connection I've ever had.