Category: Mania

• Trapped in Time

  1–2 minutes

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  01/26/2020

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  art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, career, Childhood sexual abuse, Chronic Depression, clean, Confidence!, Creativity, disability, Excellence, faith, Flashbacks, Found Objects, garden art, garden Photography, gift, God, gratitude, grief, Handicapped, Hope, identity, Injustice, insomnia, Joy, learning, love, Mania, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mixed Media, out of the gutter, pain, painting, promises, Psychiatrist, PTSD, re-purposed, Real Life, Recovery, Healing, Serenity, Sex abuse, sexual assault, Shame and Guilt, sobriety, Success, Teaching, Therapy, treasures

  “Emotional Stuckness, thats a common ailment…”

  

• An Awakening

  3–5 minutes

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  01/14/2020

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  art, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Childhood sexual abuse, Chronic Depression, clean, concrete art, Confidence!, Creativity, death, disability, faith, Found Objects, garden art, gift, God, gratitude, grief, Hope, identity, Injustice, insomnia, Joy, learning, love, Mania, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mixed Media, moving day, moving on, out of the gutter, pain, painting, poems, promises, Psychiatrist, PTSD, Real Life, Recovery, Healing, recycled art, Serenity, Sex abuse, sexual assault, Shame and Guilt, sobriety, Success, Therapy, Vigil

  Sleep has been a constant goal for me since I put down drugs and copious amounts of alcohol. Yet it has been the most evasive and endangered of species, teasing me with scattered glimpses of it’s eternal beauty. Oh, how I have longed for it’s soothing embrace, and so have everyone I have contact with;…

  

• The Duality of My Artistic Self

  3–5 minutes

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  11/13/2019

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  art, Artistic Excellence, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Chronic Depression, Creativity, disability, Excellence, faith, Flashbacks, gift, God, gratitude, Handicapped, Hope, Injustice, insomnia, learning, love, Mania, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mood Swings, pain, painting, Psychiatrist, PTSD, Real Life, Recovery, Healing, repurposed, Serenity, sobriety, Success, Therapy, treasures

  Depicting my own image has been a starting point my work from the beginning. As a child my drawings were always of female faces, although I never consciously realized these were reflections of me. Even then, in my earliest work, the duality of my nature is blatantly apparent. .  The faces I drew were always…

  

• What Does Artistic Success LOOK Like?

  4–6 minutes

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  09/15/2019

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  acrylic, art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Assemblage, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, career, Childhood sexual abuse, Chronic Depression, concrete art, Confidence!, Creativity, digital art, disability, Employment, Excellence, faith, Finances, Flashbacks, Found Objects, garden art, gift, God, gratitude, Handicapped, Hope, identity, identity theft, Injustice, insomnia, Investing in Art, Job, Joy, learning, love, Making Money, Mania, Master, mental illness, Mixed Media, moving day, moving on, Oil, pain, painting, Photography, poems, promises, Psychiatrist, PTSD, Real Life, recycled, recycled art, repurposed, Retirement,, Saving Money, Serenity, Sex abuse, sexual assault, sobriety, Success, Teaching, Therapy, Top, treasures

  Wouldn’t we all like to know, right? Yes! We all want to be a great “success” in our chosen field, and many artists have a clear idea of what they need to be successful. Speaking for myself, I thought success would mean the end of financial struggle, to a point. As a person with mental…

  

• An Introduction and Trigger Warning!

  2–3 minutes

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  09/10/2019

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  art, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Childhood sexual abuse, Creativity, Flashbacks, gratitude, Hope, insomnia, Joy, love, Mania, mental illness, Mixed Media, out of the gutter, pain, painting, PTSD, Sex abuse, sexual assault, Shame and Guilt, sobriety, Therapy

  Boom. Just like that! I pushed a button, chose the business plan, and I’m up and running… Why don’t you come run with me for a while? You can see me falter, catch my breath, take a few more steps, laugh, get a stitch in my side, take another step or two…and then give it…

  

• Evolution of Self 2008-2018

  1–2 minutes

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  08/17/2018

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  acrylic, art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Childhood sexual abuse, clean, Confidence!, Creativity, digital art, disability, dreams, Excellence, faith, Flowers, Found Objects, garden Photography, gratitude, Handicapped, Hope, identity, Injustice, Joy, learning, love, Making Money, Mania, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Oil, painting, Photography, poems, promises, Psychiatrist, PTSD, Real Life, Recovery, Healing, recycled art, repentance, repurposed, sexual assault

         Quite a Journey, this “Being Me”…These images only show a tiny portion of my different self images, and perhaps one day I will caption them. Right nowI’m just too, too tired…

  

• RILEY the Elegant Elephant

  1–2 minutes

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  12/23/2017

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  An update on our dear friend Riley!

  

• Praying Praying Mantis

  1–2 minutes

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  09/21/2017

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  art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Assemblage, Bipolar Art, Confidence!, Creativity, dreams, faith, Flowers, Found Objects, garden art, garden Photography, gift, God, Hope, Joy, learning, love, Mania, mental illness, Mixed Media, promises, PTSD, Recovery, Healing, recycled, recycled art, Success, Teaching, Therapy, treasures

  Here is a first look at my new metal sculpture, “Praying Praying Mantis”! I am so excited about this effort, it was my first time welding and plasma cutting, which I did freehand. I absolutely LOVE the medium, and hope to incorporate more metalworking into my portfolio in the future. I hope you enjoy! I…