The Brush & The Road

The Brush & The Road

The Trail Of The Brush…

Goal:

A dear friend gave me a card once, with a quote by Denny Kaye that said, “ Life is a big Canvas throw all the paint on it you can. “ I have a dream of traveling throughout the United States of America in an RV, creating paintings that will be evolving along the way. My studio will no longer be confined to four walls; it will expand into communities, cities and various landscapes.

I will be creating a video about painting and my personal experience on the road. Exploring what happens when an act of painting becomes public and collaborative rather than an act done privately.

This project is about my desire to find a deeper understanding about my own internal process as a Deaf, Queer, Woman Artist grabbling with identity and the need to find myself through the power of art. Leaving behind the comfort of my home and a familiar community.

Every brush stroke will be a record of an exact moment traveled and experienced. Each mile driven will be an opportunity to bare witness to life. I will travel the states with awareness, not passing the things that move me, but stopping to know them. Capturing their teachings through painting. Revealing trails of brushstrokes created with mindful intentions.

The video and paintings will contain the stories of time and places overlapped. Memories carried into each other.

The road will be my teacher and the brush will be its voice. I will investigate all directions; share both my internal and external growth and the power of painting. I know the canvas will be measured by inches, but the outcome of this journey is limitless. True art strikes deeper than the surface and life is a great big canvas waiting to be painted.