Category: Real Life

• I WONT GIVE UP!

  2–3 minutes

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  05/06/2026

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  Bipolar Disorder, Chronic Depression, disability, Real Life, Recovery, Healing, self worth, Transformation

  I will NOT give up!!

  

• Faces I see, Dreams of Me

  1–2 minutes

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  01/29/2024

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  Addiction, art, Bipolar Art, bipolar artist, Bipolar Disorder, Fine art, Flashbacks, gratitude, grief, Hope, outsider art, PTSD, Real Life, Recovery, Healing, recycled art, sobriety, Therapy, Transformation

  

• It’s Just Me…

  2–3 minutes

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  11/19/2020

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  art, Bipolar Disorder, Chronic Depression, Confidence!, Creativity, Denial, gift, God, gratitude, identity, learning, love, Mania, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, mothers, moving day, moving on, out of the gutter, pain, promises, PTSD, Real Life, Recovery, Healing, repentance, repurposed, Serenity, sobriety, Success, Therapy, Uncategorized, voyages

  “He bandaged my broken hands that had beaten down my own hopes…”

  

• A Freewheeling Frenzy!

  1–2 minutes

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  10/23/2020

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  acrylic, art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, clean, Confidence!, Creativity, disability, dreams, Excellence, gift, gratitude, Handicapped, Hope, Impressionist, insomnia, Job, Joy, learning, love, Mania, Marketing Stategy, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mixed Media, Mixed media, Oil, out of the gutter, pain, painting, Psychiatrist, PTSD, Real Life, Recovery, Healing, recycled art, repurposed, Retirement,, Saving Money, sobriety, Success, Surrealism, Therapy, Top, treasures, Uncategorized, voyages

  I have to get the mix just right: a smidgen of anxiety, a pinch of hunger, a good dose of caffeine and just about 48 hours without sleep and *BAM*! The NY creative lightning strikes! Tonight was the night, today was the day, cleaning off my museum pieces with fine brushes, repairing and sprucing up…

• In My Room

  1–2 minutes

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  09/13/2020

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  acrylic, art, Artistic Excellence, Assemblage, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, concrete art, Creativity, digital art, dreams, Flashbacks, Flowers, Found Objects, garden art, gift, God, gratitude, Hope, Impressionist, Joy, learning, Mania, mental illness, Mixed Media, moving day, moving on, Murals, out of the gutter, out of the gutter, outsider art, pain, painting, poems, promises, PTSD, Real Life, Recovery, Healing, recycled art, repurposed, Resurrection, sobriety, Success, Surrealism

  your home is your place to dream, to find peace and rest. A cocoon, a safe haven, an island in the storm… a place to create, to define, to highlight who you really are-in your own space. Welcome to mine… I always lived with others, my family, my husband, friends… I expressed my own style…

  

• “Party Girl”

  1–2 minutes

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  09/08/2020

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  art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Confidence!, Creativity, dreams, Excellence, Flashbacks, gratitude, Hope, identity, insomnia, Joy, love, Mania, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mixed Media, Mood Swings, out of the gutter, pain, painting, poems, promises, PTSD, re-purposed, Real Life, Recovery, Healing, Serenity, sexual assault, sobriety, Success, Teaching, Therapy, Uncategorized

  

• Transported.

  1–2 minutes

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  09/07/2020

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  art, Artistic Excellence, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Childhood sexual abuse, Chronic Depression, Creativity, Denial, disability, dreams, Flashbacks, gift, gratitude, grief, Handicapped, Hope, identity, insomnia, Mania, mental illness, out of the gutter, pain, Real Life, Recovery, Healing, Sex abuse, sexual assault, Shame and Guilt, sobriety, Therapy

  “Why am I small again, lost again?”

  

• All Writey Now

  1–2 minutes

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  09/02/2020

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  art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Confidence!, Creativity, death, disability, dreams, Employment, Excellence, faith, gratitude, Handicapped, Hope, identity, Job, learning, Mania, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mixed Media, Mood Swings, pain, painting, promises, Psychiatrist, PTSD, Real Life, Serenity, sobriety, Therapy, voyages

  …seems to be less like a monkey…more like a huge Brahma that has lain down, groaning and farting…