The Witness
Chronicle #060526
There is a particular kind of loneliness that comes from believing everyone always leaves.
And then there is the quieter realization:
Perhaps the person I have been leaving most often was me.
This piece began with symbols that have followed me for years. The eye. The moon phases. The butterfly. I have used them separately before, but while working on this piece they began to tell a different story together.
The eye becomes The Witness.
Not an all-seeing eye watching from above, but the part of ourselves that remains present through every season of life.
The moon phases speak to cycles of becoming. Nothing remains full forever. Nothing remains dark forever. Life moves in rhythms whether we approve of them or not.
The butterfly represents transformation, the quiet kind. The kind that happens when we stop searching outside ourselves for permission to exist as we are and begin returning home to ourselves.
Over the last twenty years I have experienced loss, disappointment, grief, and abandonment in many forms. While reflecting on those experiences, I realized something painful:
I was waiting for others to stay, but I was repeatedly abandoning myself in pursuit of that goal.
This work represents a turning point.
The Witness is a reminder that I am never truly alone. Beneath the noise of fear, longing, and uncertainty exists a deeper self that has remained present all along. A steady inner companion. A guide. A keeper of truth.
The journey home was never about finding someone to rescue me.
It was about remembering that the one who never left was still here.
Mixed Media
June 2026
Mixed Media
June 2026How They Were Made
Created using layered gel plate printing, hand-carved stamps, acrylic paint, hand-drawn details, and dimensional mixed media elements. Multiple layers of texture and symbolism were built over time, resulting in a one-of-a-kind original artwork rich with history, meaning, and surface detail.
