Windows to the Inside

My Interior World Made Manifest

Jul 25, 2025

Between my self-care practices, music performances, various community projects, my garden, and responsibilities with my family in Nashville, this summer has been full in all the best ways. Somehow, I fit in time to make art. This is a way for me to press pause on everything else and to focus my brain’s attention on something very small and specific. I go slow, and the interior world of my imagination flows outward.

Have a look inside.

COLOR NOTEBOOK

I have been enjoying ink pens lately and exploring the interplay between warm and cool tones and colors. With this cat, red and orange splotches are contrasted with a blue border.

MONOCHROME COLORING BOOK

A recent new acquisition of mine is something called a monochrome coloring book. The idea behind it is that you only use one color to fill in an entire page, as opposed to traditional coloring books that allow for multiple colors.

The one I am using is from a company called Still & Slow, and the objective of this book is to use it to slow down during your day. Not having to think about color or contrast has been a lovely change since I started using it. Of course, it’s likely that you can use any coloring book as a monochrome one, but because this was designed specifically as such, I thought I would give it a try. The company even sells the brush pens that work well on their paper.

So far so good. It’s been slow and relaxing for a few minutes here and there. The book has sixty pages to fill in with one color. This is going to take a very long time to finish, and I am extremely okay with that.

ABSTRACT FLOWERS

Sometimes when I draw these flowers, I pretend that I am looking into a microscope. The resulting image is only a small fraction of a larger growing thing.

MY GARDEN

My Japanese-inspired Komorebi garden is certainly a creative project of mine. I have curated the plants that grow in it and the pots I use for a few of them. I have designed the spaces with open areas, curved borders, seating, walkways, and various stone vignettes. It is my living and breathing work of art that I have nurtured with my own hands.