“Thought Bound”

How It All Came to Be

About 17 years ago (2004) I dreamt that I was living in a big, old, beautiful Victorian home with a large wrap-around front porch. To my confusion, children were dropping their bikes onto the sidewalk and sneaking up on the porch to look through the front windows. Every time I would go to move the curtain the children would scream and run away. This time, however, I caught a glimpse of my reflection in the window. AGHH! I screamed! I was a Casper-like version of myself! In that instant, I remembered how it was that I passed away to this new life with less opacity and that I was prepping for the arrival of my friends who were coming over to help celebrate my “Death Day” (aka. the anniversary of my death) My death involved a bonfire and a minor explosion that perhaps engulfed my existence. In any case, my friends arrived with a wrapped book-shaped gift. Upon opening, the old book was titled, “A Girl Bound By Her Own Thoughts.” This premise is the catalyst driving me as an artist to highlight how our thoughts are the culprit behind self-sabotage and contrastingly the center of our success.

“We all think that our thoughts are privately contained in the darkness of our mind; hidden away from everyone, but every part of our life reveals manifestations of very raw, very real, very unedited thoughts hanging out for all to see. Your house, your relationships, even your physical body is clearly define the inner functioning of one’s personal cognitions, because, after all, thoughts actually become reality. I refer to our physical manifestations as our “thought package.” -Rush

To honor the Devine Source of life I approach my painting practice through meditation. In the conception phase, I focus my intention upon a thought believed to have the power to raise self-awareness. When creating my usually large-scale works, I move fluidly between spray paint, gesso, acrylic, pigment powder, and oil paint the achieve a playful layering effect that speaks to the passage of time using both subtractive and additive processes.

I am a Veteran and a first-gen graduate who earned a BFA from SCAD (2020 equals Living Room Graduation) in the Fine Arts of Painting and now I’m in hot pursuit of my Master’s. I currently reside in Savannah, Georgia. I’ve decided to use my drawings as a way to amplify my mediation.

Key Factors Concerning the Direction of My Creations

  • Ask and You Shall Receive.

  • I Am, Are Two Powerful Words

  • Intentions Are Powerful

  • Mind Over Matter / Thoughts Become Tangible (Matter/Experiences)

  • Meditation / Self-Awareness and Sub-Conscious Mastery

  • Demonstrating How Powerful Thoughts Are

  • Through Vulnerability, My Art Exist as An Example

  • Questioning Everything Reveals Answers

Influential Thinkers

  • Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

  • Abraham Hicks

  • Jason Silva

  • Benjamin Franklin 

  • John Locke 

Goals

  • The storyline of my creations is reflective of the trials that I have faced in my life and progress as my understanding of this attraction-based Universe grows.

  • Through sharing how to turn suffocation into empowerment my goal is to be a light for others. Pinpointing the awareness of the “silver lining light” of hindsight found in the clarity of 20/20 to the forefront to facilitate a beacon by which others may use to navigate this life to achieve an intentional life by design.

  • As an example: the painting, More Than the Physical (2021) depicts an awareness of the self-existing on a multidimensional level. Launching the 2 magical ingredients found in the expansion of thought, consciences, and awareness that we are all the universe exploring possibilities in a constant state of rediscovery

    The Process

  • To articulate my physical “thought package” body I am using a technique as old as the earliest footprints impressed/cast in mud in order to DATE/TIME/STAMP/RECORD an imperfect copy/Xerox of my body simply by painting my body and pressing it onto the canvas. Then, I work back into the print with my brush to articulate the received message.

  • History of this prehistoric style: The earliest recorded form of impression painting was found in the Cueva de las Manos (Spanish for Cave of the Hands.) The cave is located in the province of Santa Cruz, Argentina, 101 mi south of the town of Perito Moreno. It is named so for the hundreds of hand paintings collaging the cave’s interior rock walls.

  • Ceremonially early tribespeople would use clay and natural pigments like local plants and wet charcoal to create aesthetic body paintings. Today indigenous people of Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific islands, and parts of Africa still practice ritual and celebratory body painting.

The artist is present.