“New Beginnings” was made long after I finished the last of the original collection. I still had such big feelings after finishing the collection last spring so I made 3 larger works continuing the theme of parenting in those delicate and intimate hours between dusk and dawn. All 3 canvases had previous paint strokes on them, art pieces from the past that were dug out of storage and given a new life. My kids have given me so much—so much joy, so much transformation, so many more dreams than I could have imagined. There has been suffering (my sleep bank is constantly teetering on empty) but their brightness in my life is blinding. I am who I have always been and still yet this new being in the making.