Mixed Media | Growing vegetables is what I do to fight climate grief. I tried to portray that here.

Watercolor | The painting pictures a floating sky whale and a small child-like figure towards the foreground. It is created using watercolor and is given a loose and transparent feeling. Nature and destruction were some themes that I kept in mind when working on this piece. The red background is meant to represent fire and give an ominous feeling. It aligned with some of the events taking place at the time such as the wildfires. The whale, while non-threatening at first, becomes more foreboding as the scene is taken in.

Poem | I’m hoping the poem speaks for itself.

Paint | I started this painting by writing out the entire Merriam-Webster definition of the word, ‘adaptation’, a concept which I believe is central to addressing climate change. I took a stream-of-consciousness approach to painting, choosing the first images that came to mind and layering them on top of each other. I chose to work in layers because I feel that the process gives the canvas a history which enriches the meaning of the main subject. It also makes the painting seem more chaotic, which reflects the anxiety that so many of us feel about the climate crisis. This piece was originally meant to reflect the range of positive and negative messages about climate change that I see in the news media. However, once I started working, it became a more personal piece about my fear that we will fail to adapt to this crisis.

Photography | Photography, colour saturation, commentary of power, Interpretation, visual portal, intensity!

Watercolor | This is one of the project from my water color class. This was inspired from one of the storyboard of the Martian chronicle PCC theatre play. Here I draw a melting-like snowman ( at least I'm trying to make it look like that :"D and the younger kids looked at the snowman worriedly and disappointedly. The rocket in the night sky shows the scene where human started doing some space expedition and ( since I don't really read or watch the Martian Chronicle), I would say it's also symbolize how the rich fund the mars trip thinking that if the earth could no longer survive, they could just live on mars ( sad sad lyfe :"))

Graphite | This shows the animated life of a flower from birth to death, includes romance, love, parenthood, and heartbreak.

Mixed Media | This collage was done as an assignment for my drawing class. I found a book of beautiful aerial photographs of glaciers and combined sources from that with pieces I found in another book of photographs taken in and around my hometown of South Lake Tahoe, California. As this piece came together, it more or less took on a life and message of its own and guided me subconsciously towards the final product.

Paint | I created this painting which is called the vanishing view due to the changing of the environment surrounding us. In this painting I had analyzed the density of lines we see like the telephone lines and power lines tangling around us and the underground lines as well. All these lines take away more of our environmental view which is why I named the painting the vanishing view. I’m very passionate about how we live and what we leave behind to the next generation. I used abstract approach to simplify and create an abstract expressionist painting.

Music Composition | I wrote a song about the Labor Day fires of 2020, the potential for regrowth and regeneration in a charcoal forest, and the reality of timber industry practices relating to post-fire landscapes. It is about protecting our fragile and temporary burned forests for habitat and learning resilience rather than chopping them up for parts.

3D | 'Ancestors' speaks to the environmental impact of settler colonialism in Oregon, as well as to the ancient history of cave dwelling, with incorporation of images from the Paisley caves in Eastern Oregon, where the oldest human remains in North America were found.

The glue-like, stickiness one experiences in moving around in the work points to the relative dimension of time, which bedevils humanity in her current context, leading to more destruction of the natural world.

The spawning eye wants to alert the visitor to the awareness that comes from finding different perspectives in seeing the world around us, as the Great Mother Goddess births a new world.

'Ancestors' was created this Spring term in the ART 119 Basic Design - 4D Foundations class, taught by Myra Day.

Fable, Tale, Poem | A fable a tale a poem about a Godess and Nature.

Poem | Deciding to become a parent comes with deep joy alongside guilt in many forms. Feelings of guilt related to climate grief are vast: how many diapers we throw away, how many plastic toys we buy, our ignorance in how destructive our purchases are, and most importantly what kind of world we will be leaving behind for our children. This poem is an ode to the dualities of motherhood, and a reminder that the scales always tip to the selfish love for our own.

Watercolor, Paper Collage | It’s watercolor and paper collage. I took the paper pieces from photos of a family member’s house that burnt down last year in Paradise, CA. Both climate impact and human impact on the environment have caused heartbreaking catastrophe. That family member sent me photos of items found in the ashes of their home. They said anytime they smell smoke, they are traumatized now. I was struck by the figurine in my painting as it reminded me of iconic Christian imagery, so I painted it to match Spanish folk icons. There’s something both heartbreaking and reverent about grief. We have to make space for it, it will not be ignored. Part of the grieving process involves the irony of hope - hopes lost and new emergent hope. Hopefully I captured a small moment of pain, irony, and hope altogether.

Size : 7.5x14.5 inches

Watercolor | This watercolor was created in response to a prompt in Mark Smith’s fall class. The theme was “What’s in the air, what’s in the water”. It was painted in October 2020, immediately after the terrible and destructive wildfires that left so many homeless, and destroyed many of my favorite places in western Oregon.

Part of my identity stems from the five years I spent in the 1970’s working as a reforestation worker. I lived outdoors and planted trees in the clearcuts of the national forest, BLM land, and on private timber company land. I love trees and grieve their loss. I value wild places and the creatures that inhabit them. The picture depicts the healthy flora and fauna above, and the wasted land, water, and animals in the reflection.

I placed the word Greed in the water because I believe it reflects the root cause of the multiple and seemingly insurmountable problems we now face.

Watercolor | This is a demonstration artwork created for my watercolor class for an assignment called "What's in the Water, What's in the Air." Using a process know as wet-in-wet (painting onto dampened paper), students are asked to explore that technique as well as address aspects of environmental change as a result of global warming and increased pollution.

Paint | The juxtaposition of wind energy with oil energy looked at through the eyes of our crow.

Audio, Video | The concept for the Poetic Rap Series has long been in the works since I was very young. I am heavily influenced by hip hop culture and by growing up in the Bay Area. I wasn't often privvy to notions about climate change, sustainability, animal rights etc. but I always had an innate curiosity to explore those realms outside of the context of a metropolitan city. After reading The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert, my heart sank and I instantly felt the weight of the ironies of both our industrial and technological accomplishments. Creating art and poetry are the ways that I feel I can raise awareness for the wrong-doings against humanity and the planet but also where I can speak what's in my heart.

Mixed Media | Last year I was admitted to the hospital for two weeks. As an environmentalist, I was horrified by the amount of medical waste that I was producing while lying in my bed. As an artist, I saw my medical waste as wonderful art material, and I started a collection. As I rehabilitated I began to turn my medical “garbage” into pieces of art.

While receiving a chemotherapy treatment to slow the progression of my MS, I showed my nurse my work and asked for my medical waste. She became fond of my art, offered me all of the clinic’s “non-COVID” medical waste, and gave me a bag of the plastic caps off of glass chemotherapy vials.

My piece is, “Grief; Gratitude; Growth;” It expresses what can come from all grief, including climate; if we choose to process it in a positive way. 10” x 10” Mixed Media on wood panel.