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Washington (east of Seattle) based acrylic and watercolor painter. DM for prices, prints, and commissions 🌈
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Sculpting and experimenting with papier-mache has been incredibly fun and fulfilling, and it’s how I’ve spent most of my time over the past month. Building and sculpting with this and cardboard has reminded me that I have the freedom to make truly anything my heart desires. It connects me back to the what a gift it is to be alive and to be an artist.

Sometimes my own expectations of painting and making “serious” art trap me in a creative rut. But when I allow myself to make whatever brings me joy, to start new projects even through there are…several in-progress pieces…it unlocks me, gives me momentum, and often gives me solutions to those stagnant unfinished pieces.

Also, I love transforming my spiritual/interdimensional experiences into beautiful, magical objects.

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Samsara fest did me right ✨ Started, live painted, and finished this new piece over a couple days at the festival! Connected with so many sweetie pies, boogied hard, got to dance with the homie @alexunger_tunes and shout out to my babe @z.arts.exist for looping me into this beautiful place. Vancouver Island is pretty sweet 🥰

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Flammable, Viva, and Uniting Souls invite you to our 8th annual **free party** in the park!

Forest For The Trees will be held at Gas Works Park, this Sunday Aug 10th, from 2-930pm.

Bring the family, a blanket, frisbees & flow toys, picnic basket/snacks, sunscreen, and enjoy music by:

Ramiro
Emily Song
Peter Evans
Dane Garfield
Lucky Cheese
Samadhi Flow
Onyx Ocean

Danley Sound by Jules Okeefe

Live art/painting by

Nintron (Nina Heckman)
Lauren Olson
Rolando Vega
Katie Monk

We look forward to celebrating summer with you, in a break from the madness in the world ❤️

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Back on my regular mystical bullshit 💃🏼🐆✨ Thank you for having me @levity.arts —you really know how to put on a show and throw a party 🔥

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1st set of pics from the 👑 @kirsten_may_ !!

——> You can find the full set at the 🔗 in bio

thank YOU for showing up in all your best (and rainbow-iest) throwback office wear aerobics psychedelic pants-less power suit nonsense ensembles 🌈👔👯🪩🦄

PS we’ve got 4 more photo sets coming!

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More cute faces for your Friday!
🩷💜💙💚💛🧡
(shoutout to the perfect🍓🙏)

📸 all the sweet pics from this crew! @kirsten_may_ @swedutch @codingtom @homerosotophotography

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Art bring people together 💛

Join us for a magical evening celebrating art, music, and movement 💃🪩🏝️

Comment “silent disco” for more info!

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Only a few days left until returning to the most magical, whimsical, and circusy festival ever! ✨ I can’t wait to share my art, adornments, and cozy creative sanctuary with you all once again at ShBang! 🥲♡

Love this little snippet from last year that encapsulates it all so well! Plus loved vending next to sweet @katiemonkart

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Quick painting of this photo @baileyann888 took last night—a fun, loose piece to break up my bigger projects. Wearing my ruffle that @elenacow made me to ask, who is going to @shbangfestival ? 🤡 Come see my LED sculpture “Myceliate” and catch me as a roving Biblically Accurate Angel—slightly different from Ambrosia—disseminating the holy wisdom of beauty, pain, light and darkness. Be not afraid ✨

Photo of @akkrasia and I, and scuplture photos by @deevolutionary_photography

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My show, “Between the Rocks and Sky” is tomorrow! Please come hang out, hear my talk at 7:30 titled “Panpsychism, Neural Rewiring and the Art and Dance of Being Alive”, see my massive collection of paintings, drink tea from Sascha, see @akkrasia perform, see @symprez live paint! Very surreal to be featured in such a beautiful space while surrounded by such talented friends and community. Very sweet and meaningful. Tickets are at rocksandsky.eventbrite.com ✨ See you there!

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Meet my sweet baby LED sculpture piece, called “Myceliate”. She’s slightly bigger than 2x4’. The idea for this piece first came to me a year ago, and I’ve been very slowly bringing her to life since then.

I individually sculpted 600 tiny unique pieces, glued those pieces onto pins, painted each pin with hard coat, trimmed each piece to a different length, and pre-poked each hole and then placed each pin, as the pins themselves where not sharp enough to pierce the gessoed, canvas upholstered foam board. So outside of the construction of the box and LED placement, this was 3600 individual small actions.

I had built the fame somewhat haphazardly and installed the LEDs with only only nice setting, and it was almost ready for Ambrosia when Graham @esemplastic_ generously and ambitiously offered to help me rebuild the frame and upgrade the LEDs in less than 48 hours. I couldn’t have rebuilt it on time without him and he has really elevated my ability to run different programs. Very grateful ✨💛

I don’t know how many hundreds of hours this took but it has been a true labor of love, and I’m thrilled with how she turned out 🌈 If you’re going to Cascadia, you’ll see her this weekend!

#trypophobia warning 💛

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The title of this piece is “Ancestral Olive Fields”, 3x4’, acrylic on canvas.

In their cleansing of the people and land, they couldn’t leave even the olive trees unburned.

At this most critical time in human history, when we are on the brink of climate collapse, the bulldozing weight of capitalism and colonialism are still burning humans and the earth in the name of profit. The systems we have are incredibly broken and corrupt. We have a responsibility to resist and overthrow a corrupt and tyrannical government that only represents billionaires. There is a massive charade of manipulation and propaganda that is in place to make sure we are complacent. Our government hopes that we are too burnt out to resist.

We share this planet, we are the same as the humans being bombed and displaced in all the ways that really matter, and you know, we’re on each other’s teams. I hope you say something. I hope you use your power, skills, creativity, and art in the ways you can. I hope you support your community, and boycott where you can. All of your actions are meaningful. Keep going.

#freepalestine

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