SLO Countryside 24x30

24x30 Acrylic/ canvas/ glitter/ epoxy art resin. Ready to hang.  It’s taken 12 years. I finally have the confidence to put blank white spaces into my art.  In my twenties, I wanted to live in the heart of downtown Chicago. I worked in a packed restaurant and after my shift went to the packed bar at midnight, then to the packed nightclub where the speakers shook the walls and I danced until the sun came up. I didn’t have the confidence or identification for blank spaces in even a second of my life. I thought if I filled every single minute with every single thing then I would be interesting, and smart, and most of all I would be too busy to feel any type of way about any type of thing. Silence felt terrifying but I lied to myself and just said it was boring.  All I want these days is blank space and gaps in time to intentionally rest and do nothing. I’ve been calling this summer of 2023 my great summer of hibernation. I’m either in a hot room, in the ocean, or at home and writing or pai