Succulent
Hello,
To me, these plants are poetry.
Succulents’ colors grow vivid when starved of water and stressed by environmental extremes.
When I feel at my limit, they are a reminder that life can be stubbornly beautiful in the worst of times.
My story began in a religious cult, where I learned to stifle my desires and take care of everyone but myself.
The human I married helped me start to discover who I was, but also reinforced many of those lessons. I threw everything I was into that relationship, and almost a decade later, it left me a shell of myself and in a financial mess.
But that wasn’t the end for me.
My life felt like a dead end,
but my obsession with succulents and desire to make something meaningful led to a thriving art practice.
And a in 2021, Hello Succulent was born; spurred on by an online community that saw the strength in me that I couldn’t.
Now, I am rebuilding my life outside of normal rules—cleverly, open-hearted, and full of life.
The work I make during this unique period is full of lived experience and story. These paintings literally travel the world with me, one at a time, because that’s all I can carry on this nomadic journey.