Kintsugi III

Both in my work in medical product design and as a self-taught artist, I am motivated by deeply probing challenges and adversity affecting those around me people. In my day job, I tease out solutions to hard problems facing doctors and patients. In my art, I tease out beauty from broken, ugly, or frightening things. With both, I admire and celebrate the resilience of people impacted by adversity, such as mental and physical disorders. My series, "Kintsugi", is a triptych showing the progression from feeling broken and lost in the face of anxiety and betrayal to reformation and transformation as shown through the use of gilded accents as in the Japanese art of Kintsugi