Watching Where Things Happened
11 × 15 inches, oil on panel, 2021

Painted on a handmade panel (poplar cradle; baltic birch surface) with chalk gesso grounds

Both the magic and the problem with multi-use spaces is that you can never pin down what will happen in them—there are too many variables.

This painting is a spell of protection for anyone caught between and balancing those variables:

be well and be wary, but when you get home and need to fall into bed let the wariness shrug off your shoulders and onto the floor like a trusted sweatshirt.