These can be habits, concepts, ideas… they can be local, universal, personal. These concepts will continue to run in themes throughout my artwork because they are in my brain and part of my experience.
- Motherhood: birth, sacrifice, instincts, caring, teaching, patience
- Modern parenting: schools, homework, other parents, methods of discipline, rules, expectations
- Women in the workforce: expectations, flexibility, the missing years on the resume, 80 cents to the dollar, family leave, divorce
- Work-life balance: constant rebalancing, day care, flexible schedules, partners, village to raise a family
- Family: obligation, contribution, love, care
- The things of childhood: bikes, sippy cups, stuffed animals, balls, slides
- The drive to school and the drive home
- The internet of things, wearable tech, Proliferation of smart phones
- Water incubating life, life under water,
- Space and Sci Fi, dystopian future
- Internet neutrality and the democratization of the web
- Upcycling, reuse, repurpose, Small house
- Empire of Disney and animated films
- Cyclical nature of fashion and what is says about the times
- Steampunk, Victorian Industrial
- The first generation to not know life without the internet
- The evolution of travel: foot, bike, train, ship, airplane
- Rebirth, nirvana
- Cycles of thought, patterns in action
- Cover songs, folk music
- Robots and artificial intelligence
- Film, stories
- Playing devils advocate
- Humor, schadenfreude
- Puns! I love puns.