Growing In The Dark

In 2022, I partnered with the Cox and Salmon families to create a memorial garden at the Chehalem Cultural Center featuring dragonfly and hummingbird - two of nature’s creatures who serve as reminders of loved-ones they had lost.

July 7, 2022 - Original Project Announcement

I’m back at the Chehalem Cultural Center again this year and thanks to a couple of fabulous donors, I’m an official Artist in Residence!

We’ve been dreaming up a beautiful project honoring the process of Growing in the Dark.

The darkness we’re acknowledging is Grief. We’re tuning in to the earth and each other so that we may strengthen our ability to grow even during the darkest of times.

The past few years have turned up the dial on change and transition. Not only are we missing loved ones who’ve passed on, but we’re grieving relationships and ways of life that will never be the same again after this weird and uncertain COVID-19 Era.

With all that strives to divide us these days, we can still find common ground in the cycles of life and death. Beginnings and Endings.