From the Studio: Why I Create Wordscapes

Every piece I create begins as a quiet conversation with what is rising within me. Instead of pouring paint, I now layer words, images, marks, and color the way some people journal or pray — with both surrender and intention. Each Wordscape unfolds through instinct rather than control, allowing meaning to surface in fragments, declarations, and moments of truth that can’t always be spoken plainly.

This work emerged during a period of deep listening. I was learning to trust my inner voice again — not just through feeling, but through language. Words began appearing in my process the way color once did: urgent, imperfect, and alive. They arrive as affirmations, questions, reminders, and bold statements of being. The canvas becomes a landscape of lived experience — messy, layered, contradictory, and honest.

Creating Wordscapes is how I make sense of the world. It’s how I hold joy and grief, courage and doubt, clarity and chaos in the same space. These works are not meant to instruct or persuade; they are invitations. When someone stands before a piece and recognizes a phrase that feels like their own inner voice — when something resonates, steadies, or sparks hope — I know the work has done what it was meant to do.

My intention is to create art that feels lived with rather than looked at. Art that reminds us we are not alone in our questions, our longing, or our capacity for joy. These Wordscapes are visual companions — offering reflection, reassurance, and the quiet permission to be.