Visual Art

Fern Mapped From Space Red Floral Mapped The Nest

She Looks Artist’s Statement: “She Looks” is a piece I painted in 2025 that I feel conflicted about. On one hand, my signature texture is present in the piece, which runs throughout much of my work. However, there’s an uneasiness …

Food for Thought Harmony with the Natural World Artist’s Statement: These two works were birthed out of Februllage 2026, a month-long exercise for collagists, similar to NaPoWriMo for poets. While I did not complete every day of Februllage, these works …

Cycles Love in Flux Spirit of the Wolf I aim to show how western culture tends to negate and undermine the place of black figures. I want to explore this displacement by bringing visibility to these figures and acknowledging the …

Awareness Blue Ridge Courage Journey Currently, eighty-three percent of the world’s population lives under light-polluted skies. In her illustration series “Counting Stars,” Cat DM transforms her photography to explore the impact of light pollution on our lives. She vividly depicts …

Coral Snake (oil on canvas, 12×12) Ophelia: Nothing But Flowers (oil on panel, 25×48) The Feast of the Assumption at Muna (pastel on sanded paper, 5×9)

Come (mixed materials, 11×12) I make work heavily influenced by interpersonal relationships, mental and physical illness, and metaphysical events. I use text and collage in many of my images to create texture and emotional depth. Although evocative and intense in subject …

    Projected Body Memories (ink on paper, 5.25×7.5) I draw without a plan. Every image becomes a mirror for my psyche, holding all the signs and symbols to activate my subconscious. I find memories in the corner: a bandaged …

These two artworks were created for a story I wrote, a feminist creation myth called The Seeing Seeds. The book itself hit some obstacles and never got finished, but I wound up with some images I liked. I live and …

Inertia (mixed media on canvas, 12×9) The Thinnest Portal (mixed media on canvas, 24×18) Womb of Manifestation (mixed media on canvas, 20×18) Womb of Nothingness (mixed media on canvas, 24×18) Through the use of applied mysticism, Jungian psychology, and esoteric philosophies, I pull my …