Sketchbook
“Do this your own way”
-Inge Neuhold
(my Mom)
“Do this your own way” are the last words I heard from my mom as she passed from covid complications. I think she was trying to encourage me to handle her passing and my life in my own way, free of guilt or shame no matter how “unique” or different it is from family & friends. Since her passing those 5 words regularly bubble up inside me. Though they’re simple, they’ve really gotten me to reflect on how I’d been sidetracked with striving for “sophistication” instead of being fully myself. My sketchbooks have always been a bit of a hiding place for me. But the time feels right to (nervously) share this part of my portfolio in honor of my gorgeous mama, who from the afterlife is giving me encouragement to allow the un-pretty, un-sophisticated, truest, parts of myself show.
Waters Edge-paper "drawing", 8/12"x11"
Pain Cave-ink pen drawing, 8"x11"
Lidded Vessel-paper collage "drawing", 8"x11"
Body Keeps the Score- pen drawing, 6"x9"
Dying Patriarchy, photo altered Ink drawing, 8"x11"
Glass Vessel 4-pencil, paper, paint, 8"'x11"
Free Speech-ink drawing, 8"x6"
Straddling Worlds- pen drawing, 6"x8"
Glass Vessel 3- pencil & paint drawing, 6"x8"
Lymes Pain-pencil, 8"x11"
Patterned Glass Vessel #1- Paper Drawing, 8"x11"
Protecting- photo altered ink drawing, 8"x11"
Relief Seeking- pencil drawing, 6"x9"
Proud Woman- ink drawing, 6"x9"
Patterned Glass Vessel #2- Paper Drawing, 8"x11"
Flowing with pain- pencil drawing, 6"x6"
Free Woman- pen drawing, 6"x6"
Dripping Pain- ink drawing, 6"x9"
Untitled- ink drawing, 6"x9"
Floored- pencil drawing, 8"x11"
Body Parts- photo altered drawing, 8"x11"
Eye Birds View- ink drawing photo, 6"x9"
Fontanel- photo altered pencil drawing, 8"x11"
Messed Up Seeker- marker drawing, 8"x11"
Contemplation- photo altered drawing, 6"x9"
Running from Lymes, photo altered drawing, 8"x11"
Recovery, photo altered pencil drawing, 9"x11"
Glass Vessel 4- pencil & paint drawing, 6"x8"
Glass Vessel 4- pencil & paint drawing, 6"x8"
Guardian Angel in the Wind- photo altered pen drawing, 6"x8"
Missing Parts- pen drawing, 6"x8"
Weathered Wise Woman- pen drawing, 6"x8"
Glass Vessel #6- colored paper & ink "drawing, 8"x11"
Bent Out of Shape- pen drawing, 6"x8"
Wounded Patriarch- photo altered pen drawing, 6"x8"
Channeling 1- photo altered pen drawing, 6"x8"
Channeling 2- pen drawing, 6"x8"
Mermaid Handstand- pen drawing, 6"x8"
Inheritance- colored pen drawing, 6"X8"
Self Portrait- photo altered pen drawing, 8"x11"
Female In Pink- photo altered pen drawing, 8"x11"
Channeling 3- photo altered pen drawing, 8"x11"