Living in a Chinese city that is majority Muslim, there are mosques on every corner like there are churches on every corner in the United States’ Bible belt. Though I felt very comfortable with many aspects of the new culture…
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Stories From My 2017 Solo Show – Playing Checkers in the Street
Just outside our apartment complex in the city of Urumqi, China, on a poor little avenue where very little traffic came through, groups of men would play checkers. Smoking, drinking, and gambling, they’d pass their days and go home…
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Posted in And the Distance Dissolves Into the Love, Art Collecting, Artist's Talk, China, Exhibits, Forming A Collection, Gallery Shows, Inside My World, Inspiration, Paintings, Solo Show 2017
The Musician
We’ve been studying the books of Jeremiah and Lamentations in Scripture as a church on Sunday mornings. As a person who is drawn to the melancholy, I get a sense of vindication reading Jeremiah’s words. The world isn’t all rainbows…
An Open Window
Open your windows and your doors. Behind and beyond the walls there is belonging. Enter in. The first piece completed for my solo show coming April 2017. I was spending a lot of time looking at Robert Henri paintings while…
Lillias Trotter, Regret, and a Sketchbook
This is my biggest regret over the last ten years – that I didn’t “see” China and the Hui people through the lens of art that has been given to me.
There are Winds of Heaven in this Stuff of Earth
In a small village in Yunnan, China, a woman rummages through fabric at an outdoor market. I saw a lot of beauty in the mundane errand she was checking off her to do list. Echoes of Rich Mullins’ lyrics run…
Weight of the Mundane
We visited the southern province of Yunnan, China in 2009 and got to venture out to a remote village nearby. This woman was selling some veggies alongside a handful of other women. I felt so far from these women so…
Eating an Abundance of Mangoes
Every year in Xinjiang, China, the city is overrun with fruit carts overflowing with the sweetest mangoes you will ever put in your mouth. I caught this little girl snacking on one outside her family’s little convenient store in our…
Lost in the Mountains
My husband and I visited the far west border of China in 2006. We came upon the most amazing mountain view with a vast field in front of us, but all I could really see was this young boy on…
Finding Connection in Relationships
This is a memory of a moment in our neighborhood in China. I’m pregnant with my son and met these two Hui ladies who were also pregnant with their first babies. It was Ramadan and a beautiful summer day. I…