“I’ll never know and neither will you of the life you don’t choose. We’ll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn’t carry us. There’s nothing to do but salute it from the shore.”” - Sugar (Cheryl Strayed)

Sister Ships is a series of mixed media paintings based on the irrevocable choices we all make in our lives, and the consideration of what our lives may have looked like had we made a different choice. In an article written for The Rumpus, Cheryl Strayed speaks of these “sister lives,” providing clarity for me in a time when I was struggling with which path to take in my life. The haunting and beautiful image of a ghost ship passing in the night stuck with me and emerged, seemingly out of nowhere (as ghost ships are wont to do), in this body of work.
Mixed Media on Reclaimed Wood

Signed and Titled on the Back