Odds & Ends
Four New Works, Finished at Last
Something unusual happened in my studio last year.
Normally, I work on a small group of pieces at once, whatever fits on my main work table, sometimes with a few more on an auxiliary table nearby. I take those pieces through all the stages together, moving them forward on the same timeline. Even when the works are small or varied, there’s usually an unspoken cohesion, as if they’re all part of one larger conversation.
But by the end of last year, I found myself with four artworks that didn’t quite fit that pattern.
It was odd. Not odd as in strange, but more like odds and ends.
A couple were demonstration pieces from workshops, left intentionally unfinished at different stages. A couple were studio experiments that hadn’t yet resolved themselves into something satisfying. Each one lingered quietly, waiting. After finishing my last large project in December, I finally returned to them, and I’m happy to say that all four are now complete, finished, and available.
What surprised me most was what emerged once I stepped back.
Although these pieces came together unintentionally, three of them clearly share a theme. And of course, all four come from the same artist, at the same moment in time. They belong together, not because I planned them that way, but because they reveal something I was already thinking about beneath the surface.
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Between Worlds
This piece holds a quiet tension, between land and sea, slowness and growth, fragility and persistence. A seashell holds dried flower buds that seem to reach out, each dependent on patience rather than urgency.
It feels like a meditation on inhabiting the in-between, those spaces where things don’t neatly belong to one world or another yet survive anyway.
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Safekeeping of Miracles
At first glance, this piece appears to be about shelter: a nest, an egg, leaves gathered in careful protection. But inside the egg is a seahorse, an unlikely presence, a quiet miracle held within another miracle.
This work became a reflection on layered care, on the tenderness required to protect what feels improbable or especially vulnerable. It speaks to trust, to waiting, and to the unseen labor of holding space for something precious.
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Land & Sea
This piece leans into contrast and harmony at the same time. Shell and plant, stars and earthbound growth, elements that don’t “belong” together, yet feel right when held in balance.
Rather than conflict, there’s conversation here. A suggestion that meaning can be found not in choosing one world over another, but in allowing them to coexist.
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Journey’s End
The fourth piece, Journey’s End, stands slightly apart from the others.
A small creature rests at last, surrounded by autumn leaves and layered maps; movement giving way to stillness. There’s a sense of completion here, of arrival, but also tenderness. Not an ending filled with drama, but one marked by rest.
If the other works speak to becoming, protection, and coexistence, this one feels like a pause, a place to stop and breathe.
For Collectors
These four works are now complete, resolved, and available. Each one carries its own quiet story, shaped slowly and intentionally, and meant to be lived with over time. While they came together in an unexpected way, they share a common language, of tenderness, unlikely harmony, and trust in what emerges when we allow things to unfold at their own pace. For collectors who are drawn to work that holds meaning gently rather than loudly, these pieces offer a place to pause and reflect.
Sometimes coherence isn’t something we design.
Sometimes it reveals itself only after we slow down enough to notice what has been quietly forming all along.
