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12 1/2"w x 30"h

As you look into the mirror which is surrounded by the “noise” of social media and you will see a reflection of yourself and 3 simple but powerful words that remind you that you are loved by God and he sees the beauty inside each one of us.

Special thanks to Trudy Barker for her amazing hand lettering talents. She created "I am Loved" which I had produced in vinyl cut letters and applied to the mirror. @trudy.barker

60"w x 14"h

My creative inspirations come from observations that sometimes are overlooked as we go about our day. As I was driving down the street I noticed a lady crossing the street, she looked lost. The one thing I noticed was her old unlaced tennis shoes.

I thought to myself, she is a lost soul. From that point on I knew I wanted to create a piece with the soles of old shoes.

I took the image into Photoshop and created a posterized effect. I printed it out full scale and attached it to the plywood.

From there is was simply cutting, nailing and painting the soles of shoes I had collected into each color selection.

I kept the eyes grey to emphasize that the eyes are the window to our soles.

Thank you to Photograher Pedro Oliveira for the use of his photograph as the inspiration for this artpiece.

"Transformation"

Size: 29"w x 32"h

This art piece is dedicated to the 23 loved ones who perished in the Montecito mudslide on January 9, 2018.

75% of the sale will be donated to Direct Relief to help Fund the Firehawk campaign.

The rusty and distressed metal was collected at the rock piles from the mudslide. It represents the unimaginable destruction and loss our community experienced. A torn and dirty laminated wall map found on Olive Mill Road was transformed into the beautiful butterflies.

The process began with cleaning off the mud to reveal the beautiful map colors. From there each butterfly was hand cut, laminated and resined. They were then attached to the rusty metal flying free to symbolize the transformation from the rubble.

The butterfly is proof that through hardship and struggle we can be transform to become something new and beautiful.

33"w x 18"h

Brave Wings was created to symbolize breaking free from everything that holds us back from what we were truly meant to become.

Each feather was individually carved from the lathe from our 92 year house. The wire was found on the beach and the background is a piece of tin roof.

I faintly painted all the words that prevent us from breaking free, worry, doubt, uncertainty and fear.

American Spirit Reborn

11"w x 37"h

This piece was inpsired by a poem our oldest daughter Colleen Dodge wrote following the September 11th attacks. She was only 11 at the time.

I found it about 10 years ago tucked away in a pile of papers and the words she wrote brought tears to my eyes.

The idea of creating art using the poem drifted around in my head for about a year until recently when it all came together with scraps of metal I had stored in my art studio.