Monotype, Oil, 15.5″ x 19.5″
Yes, this is my child—the human who reaches his saturation point faster, louder, and more intensely than most. I’ve been that parent in the middle of the store, the one strangers watched and cringed at while I abandoned a full cart to carry him out, tiny shoes flying in my wake. If you think he ‘grew out of it,’ just add the complexities of the digital age. It hasn’t necessarily gotten easier, but we’ve become a team. We don’t just survive the meltdowns anymore; we collaborate to solve them.