In Heaven Everything is Fine

(2025) Acrylic on Paper / 8” X 11”

Blue Horizon for Everyone

(2025) Acrylic on Paper / 11” X 8”

The Endless Sea (Endless)

(2025) Acrylic on Paper / 8” X 11”

You Will Find Me If You Want Me In The Garden

(2025) Acrylic on Paper / 8” X 11”

Down In The Park

(2025) Acrylic on Paper / 11” X 14”

Who From Below Hast Made Me Rise

(2025) Acrylic and Watercolor on Paper / 8” X 11”

A note:

I was swimming daily laps when I noticed the crosses, bathed in a holy light from the sun streaking in through the wavering water. I’d swim a mile, silently repeating the number of laps til I hit my goal. In an era of high anxiety, this became my meditation. 

The pool, built by the WPA during the New Deal, is called Big Stacy. It’s naturally heated by a geothermal well 1,600 feet deep, keeping the water temperature at 80 degrees year-round. In the winter months, the pool gives off steam, creating an otherworldly atmosphere for the handful of us who come to immerse ourselves. Summer months there’s a more motley collection — lap swimmers, yes, but also families, adults with disabilities, caregivers, sunbathers, people with nowhere else to go utilizing the facilities, water joggers, and more.

In a culture where there is a price to pay for simply being pretty much anywhere, free community space of any kind is crucial and deserves to be protected. Among these dwindling public spaces, the neighborhood pool is an important and undervalued resource. 

The name of each of these pool paintings has been taken from a song that bubbled up for me as I made or reviewed the work, echoing the sense of communion-in-solitude that both listening to music alone in my studio and swimming laps provide.