MAGICAL THINKING

A Year of Magical Thinking is a series of 52 works created over the course of a year, one for each week, following the death of my mother and the end of more than six years of being the sole caregiver. The work began during a period when grief, anxiety, and disorientation made it difficult to return to the studio or trust the decisions involved in creating work.

Rather than beginning with predetermined compositions, I developed a process that reduced conscious decision-making and allowed chance, repetition, and intuition to guide the work. Colors, marks, and gestures accumulated through the act of making, shifting attention away from the need to resolve or explain what I was experiencing. The weekly structure became a way of marking time and establishing a rhythm when time itself felt altered.

As the 52 works accumulated, the series became both a record of that year and an exploration of what it means to continue through profound change. Repetition provided a form of grounding, while variation allowed each work to register a different moment within an experience that was continually shifting. Rather than attempting to illustrate grief, A Year of Magical Thinking traces the quieter process of living alongside it—allowing uncertainty, memory, acceptance, and transformation to emerge through making.