Beyond Fear

Sometimes things don’t work, and that’s ok. The hopes, dreams and aspirations we may have had for a relationship or an experience does not always turn out the way we had imagined. The choice is always ours: Will we chose to be victims or victors? 

Beyond Fear
acrylic, mixed media & wood
​24 x 30 in.​

​I’ve spent many years covering up the blank canvas: Painting, scratching, digging, layering, stamping, dragging, dripping, tearing, turning. All of it was done in a attempt to create beauty, try to make sense of the world around me and establish a more authentic, honest relationship with myself. 

The blank canvas used to terrify me. I spent many years paralyzed by fear, afraid to make my mark. To have it judged, ridiculed, and worst of all - to create potential evidence that I wasn’t good enough to be an artist. Through practice and repetition (to date, I have painted over one thousand canvases), I can finally admit I am no longer afraid. 

This piece is about confronting your fears, challenging the status quo, making your own rules, and celebrating the realization that when I paint the canvas, I am really just painting myself. 

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