Mind's Eye A journey from illness to healing: A neurodivergent perspective

September 2 - 6, 2025
*Reception: Friday, Sept 5th | 6-8P
**Artist Talk: Saturday, Sept 6th | 2:30-3:30P

*live music by Rene El Jaguar
**with Special guest Slam Poet Euridice L. White

About Mind's Eye

I had the courage to begin this series of autobiographical acrylic paintings in 2022. The series is made up of bold, figurative works whose characters, mostly self likenesses, show states of mental health and illness I’ve grown into, out of, and lived with during my lifetime. The viewer is taken into scenes expressing feelings and events such as depression, terror, mania, solitude, and thriving experienced during a lifetime of neurodivergent existence. “Mind’s Eye” speaks about mental illness, wellbeing, and the transformation and healing of the human mind and spirit.

Colors in the compositions are either confronting and contrasting, or subdued, foreboding and calm. The paint is layered, creating an obsessive history and rich hue. Animal beings and symbolic images appear intermingled with the figures. Paleolithic and Neolithic pattern and sculpture and hints of ancient mysticism also appear, plumbing the depths of the psyche and communicating in a primal language of emotion and notion. Brushstrokes are broad and emotive or tiny and repetitive. A carefully considered, bold composition of shapes and human/animal bodies is seen from afar, while tedious detail work is enjoyed up close.