Skeleton Woman (Please Love Me)

Oil paint, oil sticks and color crayons on wood.

30x72"

I spent 6 months on this painting, as I was confronting some deep shadows within myself. To guide me through that process, I remembered the story of Skeleton Woman, which I had read in Women Who Run With The Wolves, Shortly after, I found a full size picture book of a skeleton in the street. And so, I spent my winter digging bone deep into pain, revealing the beauty at the core of trauma.