From Galicia-With Quiet Wonder

A self-directed residency, a spiritual path, and a creative project unfolding at the edges of landscape and self.

June 7, 2025

I’m writing from Galicia—on the western coast of Spain. I’m here on a self-created residency, a pause I carved out for myself after a year of transition, upheaval, and quiet unraveling.

I came here carrying questions:
What does it mean to live well in a time like this?
What do I truly believe—about art, about God, about how to move through the world with integrity and care?
What can I offer as a mother, a woman, an artist, a human shaped by systems I didn’t choose but am now trying to understand?

These are the questions I’ve been living with for a while. They’ve been floating through my journals, echoing in the brushstrokes of my paintings, showing up in dreams and in the way my body responds to land that feels alive.

Galicia is giving me the time and space to organize these thoughts as I consider how and where to move forward.

I don’t have expectations on what I’ll find here. But I’ve learned to trust what happens when I follow beauty, when I respond instead of trying to control, and when I listen closely to what the earth and my body already know.

So this is me, standing at the edge of what’s known, writing it down.