Started and Completed: 2023, Coconut Creek, FL 

This piece shows a spiderweb built between two hands where a spiny spider rests. I was inspired by a particular spider that used to live in her web spun right outside the door of my apartment. Another inspiration was the song “Lonely Spider” by Lhasa de Sela. This painting is a reflection on self-fulfilling prophecies and delicately trying to lay out the puzzle pieces of the past and present in order to find answers to difficulties in life. The web represents thoughts, facts, memories, lies, revelations, misinformation, and emotions all cautiously pulled together. One mistaken belief informs the next and soon it is unclear whether the mess is real or imagined.