Liberate:
I painted Liberate in my kitchen.
My studio has floated around the house.
I have created in many different spaces.
My wood floors have paint droplets on them like Pollock.
I had been painting maybe a year. I was 3 yrs into my recovery and journey of truth and giving myself permission to experience what would come up for me while creating. I was constantly giving myself permission to try new things. Finding my individuality and feeling what that looked like for me.
So the obvious answer was for me to strip naked and paint.
Hold nothing back.
Even my ass left a mark.
16x20 Acrylic on canvas
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Lollipop was painted the same time I painted Liberate.
I used my breasts for the shapes. When I was done painting
I thought about my own sexuality.
How I felt in that moment sitting in my truth.
Giving myself the permission to see what came up for me.
I wouldn't say that this painting lead me come out again, but it definitely provided me with the emotional support I needed while I nurtured my feelings during that moment.
18x24 acrylic painting on canvas.
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Meandering was a test piece. I had just tried fluid art for the first time. I wasn't sure if I really liked it but I had the idea to paint over it. I started thinking about my digital art. I tested out the idea on my iPad and then tried it on canvas. I have had people tell me this painting reminds them of shoe strings
Meandering
2020
Acrylic and fluid paint on canvas
20x24
Republic:
Republic is a painting I painted during the time I painted Body Politic (sold). Body Politic was a chaotic piece. I was involved in politics and using my voice and social media influence for change. It become very exhausting. I allowed it to consume me, like it did for so many around the globe. Republic shows both red and blue colors. Red is the danger color. The blue representing freedom and healing.
Below I have included the meaning of the sister painting that Republic was created with.
16x20 Acrylic on canvas.
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Body Politic:
This painting was originally something else. If you look closely you can see the yellow, white and black line pattern going across the back of the melting colors. The original painting reminded me of static and electricity. I wasn’t fully liking the original painting and I set this aside for awhile. One afternoon I felt like painting over it. When I was finished I looked at it and thought it felt cold and chaotic. I couldn’t stop looking at it though. Especially the yellow. Yellow can represent cowardice and deceit.
I started thinking about how much the world is a mess. Politics is now so emotional. No one uses their head and no one listens to rules. Just their feelings. Everyone is just falling apart and letting go of their freedoms so blindly and freely. In some cases being lazy and slow moving when it comes to change. Government messing with people’s emotions and replacing empathy with apathy.
Ribbons: 30x40 acrylic on canvas
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where tension meets impulse, and chaos finds rhythm. drawing from abstract expressionism, surrealist schematics, and the ancestral visual poetry of my california chumash indian ancestors, i create layered compositions that echo both inherited memory and subconscious thought.
symbols, eyes, and fragmented forms emerge in a stream-of-consciousness process, guided by intuition and shaped by cultural dna. the influence of chumash artistic traditions..its sacred geometry, pattern, and spiritual depth…threads through my work, grounding modern abstraction in ancestral wisdom.
each piece is a meditation on cognition and identity, using intense color and evolving textures to mirror the complexity of being human. clock-like motifs, emotional contrasts, and subconscious marks form a labyrinth, inviting the viewer to decode, wander, and reconnect with something older than memory.
zoe gonzalez
direct decedent of ventureño chumash artist and basket weaver petra pico.
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30×40
canvas
This painting was originally something else. If you look closely you can see the yellow, white and black line pattern going across the back of the melting colors. The original painting reminded me of static and electricity. I wasn’t fully liking the original painting and I set this aside for awhile. One afternoon I felt like painting over it. When I was finished I looked at it and thought it felt cold and chaotic. I couldn't stop looking at it though. Especially the yellow. Yellow can represent cowardice and deceit.
I started thinking about how much the world is a mess. Politics is now so emotional. No one uses their head and no one listens to rules. Just their feelings. Everyone is just falling apart and letting go of their freedoms so blindly and freely. In some cases being lazy and slow moving when it comes to change. Government messing with people's emotions and replacing empathy with apathy.
Black framed 18x20 acrylic on canvas
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Song: Keep Me by Elliot Ziegler
I painted Constance back in 2019 and I submitted her in an artist call for the city of Goodyear. Covid arrived in 2020 and the exhibit went online. Most galleries shut down but eventually they started online and virtual reality exhibits. Constance was my first face painting that I did on canvas. I usually only draw faces digitally on an iPad and print it on fine paper.
Constance never got to hang inside on the wall and like most of us she was kept inside a box. Hers was a computer. Her energy never felt. The feelings I felt and what was on my mind when I painted this was never written because Covid depression took over and creating came to a stop.
Art for myself is never the same in VR. I prefer museums and galleries to stand in front of a painted piece and feel the energy from the artist. Feel the emotion that possibly the artist was feeling and maybe walk away with their own interpretations and feelings when looking at it.
Now with Covid slowly becoming something that we live with I am back to creating and putting Constance online for purchase. It feels nice to be free. Return to life. Below are the songs that I felt the most emotion while I spent time with this piece.
Music:
Anthem by Emancipator
Me and Armini by Em�ana Torrini
Mea Culpa by Enigma
Lebanese Blonde by Thievery Corporation (Symphonic Version)
20x24 canvas water based oil painting.
Distraction:
28x22
I had some playing cards that I never used. I was looking at them one day and wondered if I could paint on them. I decided to use fluid paint on the game cards. As I started painting them they reminded me of Math formulas. The paint drops. Some of the cards started looking like one another. Reminded me of the Match games I would play for hours as a kid.
I wanted this to look chaotic. Math for me is chaotic energy. I see colors with energy. Math is vibrant. It is messy. Sometimes it starts blending and all the problems start looking the same.
The background Yellow Red Green Blue… Math folders.
Music
Overstayed by 80vic, Cozy Kiyo
Resonance by Home
Overthinker by INZO
Sunset Lover by Petit Biscuit
28x22 mixed media on canvas
I sometimes feel the urge to paint a random face. Think of a name while I paint or after I am done. While I paint the face a story unfolds.
Donna was amazing. Smart. Beautiful. Always making sure her outside human was put together nicely. Her appearance and the image she built for herself was important to her. She never let her parents down or her partner. Inside however Donna's chaotic thoughts and scattered emotions were drowning her.
16x20 acrylic on canvas.
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Music: Summertime Sadness - Lana Del Ray
Efflorescence:
When I started this painting my first thought was... it has to have fluorescent colors. My emotions felt bright the day I painted this. I’ve noticed lately that I’ve been drawn to the color green. Green, the color of life, renewal, nature, and energy, is associated with meanings of growth, harmony, freshness, safety, fertility, and environment. Learning what the color green means made everything come together and make sense. I started thinking about growth and renewal. About flowers and trees. Nature and self healing. Efflorescence... the state or period of flowering.
Song: Grey Hematite by Sarah the Illstrumentalist
acrylic painting 20x20
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I painted Empathy in 2019.
Being an empath can feel overwhelming. It is bittersweet to be one. Often you feel unseen and overwhelmed by the energy and people around you. The short brushstrokes reminded me of something sharp. Short jabs. The face in the middle with a silent scream and hallowed eyes. The colors represent the energy of others.
18" x 24" canvas acrylic painting.
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50.00
30x36 gallery wrapped acrylic painting on canvas
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18x24
Euphoria was a test piece.
Euphoria is fluid paint on canvas. I am new to fluid art. I haven’t decided if I like working with it or not. If I try something new and I don’t click with it I am ok with not doing it again. Especially if I have tried something a few times. Art is a release for me. I hope it stirs up emotions and imagination in others. I stop whatever process is making me feel burned out.
Euphoria was a stimulating and challenging piece for me. I felt highs and lows. Had my imagination going in all kinds of directions. Kept me interested. I like a good challenge.
The way the paint settled reminded me of a galaxy. Even reminded me of electricity. Also how I imagine feelings of Euphoria to look like.
Music
Checklist by Damma Beatz
Sense by Cushy
Stardust Memories by Polysnare
Theme by Grand Moist
Hear ME Now by Ahmet Sariak
I wanted to try fluid paint. It was actually fun to try. Haven't decided if it is something I would try again. I painted two other paintings in this series. Meandering and Break Out.
Exuberance reminded me of a Poke Ball from Pokamon. I named this one Exuberance because exuberance means energy, excitement, buoyancy and cheerfulness.
16x20 Fluid on canvas
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