Category: Inspirations

In a dramatic desert landscape, navel oranges form a whimsical pyramid on an African birthing stool. This painting loosely inspired one of the poems in

For many years, this bright yet foreboding carnival scene hung in my childhood bedroom. My mother applied the paint with a palette knife, slashing black

A goose struggles in the grip of a haggard old woman. With hollow eyes and enormous hooked nose, she might be a witch. In “Old

When assigned to paint a self-portrait for an art class, my mother made this nightmarish collage. A serpent, fabric patterns, flames, and octopus arms swirl

As a child, I didn’t know what to make of my mother’s wild brush strokes. She didn’t title this painting, so the subject is a