Stay With Me Watercolor on Paper, 2025 There is a moment when you realize that love has already taken hold — not with a rush, but with a quiet inevitability. You feel the pull, and you know the risk: to reach is to be exposed, to be seen, to possib
We Were Never Sleeping The story behind the painting I painted this in the days before the first No Kings rally. Everything outside my window felt restless—streets filling, voices finding each other, the air beginning to hum. People called it “waki
Narcissus Watercolor on Paper, 2025 I always thought the story of Narcissus was about punishment — a warning against looking too long, too lovingly at yourself. But when I began painting, the reflection shifted. What if seeing yourself isn’t vanity
What Remains of Her (for display at the Poetry Brothel Séance) Maureen O’Rourke escaped the hunger of Ireland— the famine, the poverty, the endless grey. She and her husband crossed the ocean, chasing the promise of a better life. They found it, fo