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Idk what makes me feel more accomplished as a mother — Juni making eye contact with me in the rear view mirror every morning right before Drakes verse starts in SICKO MODE or Marley telling me I am still the best mom ever even though “she heard me say the F word on the phone one time.”

Take your babies to the art museum. It’s important.

Happy Valentine’s Day lovers. ❤️ be kind to yourself today.

Cleveland. I’m headed your way and with all new work. 2/23-2/24. Heart of the Cocktail. Museum of Contemporary Art. Curated by @steadyfloh (follow for more details and ticket info). See you soon 🌻

Juni took this photo of me and Mars. He said it will be good for her to see when she’s “like 15” so she can “remember who taught her about art.” 😭

Stand Tall (Shine). 60x60 acrylic on canvas. 2019

“Flower boy C,
Rooted from the bottom
bloomed into a tree.”

“Oh you paint? I guess being a creative is the cool thing to do right now.” Yeahhhh. Soooo cool.
Especially when it’s 2:41 am and you’ve spent 29 out of the last 48 hours at your studio and still feel like you didn’t do enough. Even cooler when you spend the other 19 hours stressing getting back to the studio and combatting mom guilt instead of sleeping. When you want to sew, but also need to paint, but also want to change the world but you’re behind on commissions and probably should find time to eat dinner. When you finally get inspired and only want to work on the things that aren’t making you money because there’s freedom in not having a price attached to something that comes from deep deep down in your soul. I spent 2 hours today figuring out which angle I wanted to paint an umbrella at. The umbrella was my last detail on a piece that had already taken me hours. I still painted it at the wrong angle and threw the whole thing away. It’s not easy being this “cool.” 😅

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