Current Work: 2020-2024
KC Parade of Hearts 2024 Entry
Confluence: Many Paths To Find Home
Front: The front represents the merging of land, people, waters and trails that formed and continue to form Kansas City. The diversity of the people in our city of all cultures are represented merging into the rolling hills and lush greenways and fields that are a part of our abundant land, where once the Shawnee, Wyandotte, Osage, Kickapoo, Potawatomi and numerous other tribes were caretakers and the sacredness of earth, water, fire and air where part of their medicine and spiritual practice, just as they are today. The confluence of the Kaw and the Missouri as well as of two cities in two different states that share an invisible dividing line are seen throughout. The power of the river that is essential to our life, crops, and future is predominant. The exterior foliage consists of a combination of wild sage and native plants to the area. The heart in the center, proclaims that these paths of the Santa Fe, Oregon and California trails, as well as others lesser known, are visible across the rollings hills and rivers, has brought us all here at some point, to find and develop a place called, “Home”.
The base: The base consists of the extension of the merged rivers that flow down and off the edge of the piece. There, the land flourishes and crops grow, recreation areas are present and different types of housing that we have now built upon these lands. The two feathers remind us, we are visitors , and that indigenous people are still here. Learning from them is elemental. The emphasis is on diversity and yet, similarity, building a confluence, a merging, a spider web, that unites all of us, respecting cultures with understanding and moving our city into the future. More about the process of creating the heart is in the blog.
Read more about the inspiration, personal connection, family histories of origin and our journey’s to Kansas City reveling in nostalgia at my blog.
Back: Turtle Island
Turtle Island is what many North American tribal communities call North America, the land we live on. The water of the oceans surrounds the turtle. Making up the turtles shell are the 13 tiles of the 13 moons of the year from the ancestrial calendar. Each has a spiral of universal energy that spins in motion like the planets rotation. The interior shell and it’s abstract, impasto(heavy layers of pain) application represents the many paths, trials, successes, and events of life that we experience within our own “cycle” of life, death and rebirth. Every beginning has an ending and every ending a new beginning. On top of the “cycle of life” we have the baby turtle who has it’s own cycle that it inhabits. These cycles represent the greater whole and the personal cycles of life experience and how they are interwoven with everything, the earth, the water, the stars. The red dots represent the spirits of ancestors on the Red Road that are guiding and protecting us. The blue bubbles and circles represent the water spirits of the Sacred Water that is our lifeblood for all things on this earth. The colors around the edge represent the Sacred symbol that holds all the wisdom of the universe, all the teachings, the elements and healings.
Personal Meaning:
This work is in honor of my family who all came from different parts of the world and this country to find their way to Kansas City and make it home. My grandfather, from Germany who left in 1923 when he was 12, on the last boat out before the quota’s began. My father’s family, farmers, who came to the city to find work and a better life. My grandmother, who left her home in southern Missouri to do the same and fell in love with that German man, who would become a fine arts illustrator at Vile Goller Fine Arts from 1930-1970’s. This piece is voice for my grandmother’s hidden journey as well. Her father, Anishinaabe, (Grand River Band Ottawa/Chippewa or also known as Ojibwe) ancestrally and her mother, with an ancestral lineage that included Osage and Eastern Cherokee. She was told to hide her ancestry and assimilate into caucasian culture out of fear of loss of life and never spoke of her ancestry until one day, at her home in Raytown, where she loved to sit on her stoop and listen to the cheers from the stadiums, at 70, she opened up and spoke.
Mixed Media Fibers - Healing Cloths
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Medicine Wheel on Mulberry
20x24
Mixed Media Textile Collage and Found Objects Beaded onto Handmade Mulberry Paper
2024
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Vision Bag
6x4 with 24 inch Torquise Strap
Textile Collage with Found Objects and Channeled Blessing
2023
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Steady Beat of the Heart of the Mother
16x20 Mounted
Mixed Media Textile Collage with Found Objects and Boro Stitching on Homespun
2024
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4 Elements Healing Cloth
24x6
Quilted Wallhanging Textile Collage with Found Objects Infused with Blessing hung on Drift Wood
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Earth and Fire
16x20
Mixed Media Textile Collae with Found Objects on Homespun
2024
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Walk Gently on This Earth
16x 20
Mixed Media with Fiber Collage, Found Objects & Poetry
2023
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Grandmother's Council Speaks
30x40x3
Mixed Media with Stitching and Found Objects
2022
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Lotus
16x20
Mixed Meda Fiber Collage and Watercolor
2024
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Between Earth and Sky
6x6
Mixed Media Textile Collge with Found Objects and Pyrography on Wood
2023
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HeartVibe - Tryptych
8x8
Mixed Media with Textile Collage and HeartMending Stitches
2023
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HeartVibe - Tryptych
8x8
Mixed Media with Textile Collage and HeartMending Stitches
2023
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HeartVibe - Tryptych
8x8
Mixed Media with Textile Collage and HeartMending Stitches
2023
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Blessing Bags
2x4
Textile Collage with Stones
2024
Mixed Media Painting
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Rockies Waterfall
24x30
Mixed Media on Paper
2022
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Portal Enso
11x14
Watercolor and Acryic on Paper
2021
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Soul Witnesses
11x14
Mixed Media on Paper
2020
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Walking Miracle
11x14
Mixed Media on Paper
2019
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Unwind the Monkey Mind
30x30x3
Mixed Media on Canvas
2021
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Drawing Down the Moon
4x4 on 8x8 Mount
Mixed Media Monoprint on Paper
2023
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Channels
20x20x3
Mixed Media on Canvas
2022
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Genesis
12x12
Mixed Media on Paper
2023
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Billy Sings
11x14
Mixed Media on Paper
2023
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Buddha Cries
30x40x3
Mixed Media on Canvas
2024
Yoni’s: Reclaiming the Body After Sexual Violation
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Yoni Blessing
8x10
Digital Art Mirrored from Original Mixed Media and Stitching Work
2023
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Adorn
8x10
Digital Art Mirrored from Original Mixed Media and Stitching Work
2023
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Queen's Magic
8x10
Digital Art Mirrored from Original Mixed Media and Stitching Work
2023
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Deliverance
8x10
Digital Art Mirrored from Original Mixed Media and Stitching Work
2023
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Only Enter With Permission
8x10
Digital Art Mirrored from Original Mixed Media and Stitching Work
2023
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Transform
8x10
Digital Art Mirrored from Original Mixed Media and Stitching Work
2023
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Soulless
8x10
Digital Art Mirrored from Original Mixed Media and Stitching Work
2023
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Quantum Healing
8x10
Digital Art Mirrored from Original Mixed Media and Stitching Work
2023
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Seat of the Solar Plexis
8x10
Digital Art Mirrored from Original Mixed Media and Stitching Work
2023
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Engorged
8x10
Digital Art Mirrored from Original Mixed Media and Stitching Work
2023
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Holy Mother and the Healers
8x10
Digital Art Mirrored from Original Mixed Media and Stitching Work
2023
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Only The Worthy May Enter
8x10
Digital Art Mirrored from Original Mixed Media and Stitching Work
2023
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Sexy Isn't Safe--Embodiment
8x10
Digital Art Mirrored from Original Mixed Media and Stitching Work
2023
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Earth Mama
8x10
Digital Art Mirrored from Original Mixed Media and Stitching Work
2023
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Goddess Heals the Rage
8x10
Digital Art Mirrored from Original Mixed Media and Stitching Work
2023
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Trust
8x10
Digital Art Mirrored from Original Mixed Media and Stitching Work
2023
Collage Work
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Be Epic
11x14
Mixed Media on Paper
2022
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Journey
11x14
Mixed Media on Paper
2022
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Fairies Flight
11x14
Watercolor Collage
2018
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Butterfly Wings
11x14
Watercolor Collage
2018
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Seasons of Time - Quadtych
4-5x7 pieces
Watercolor Collage and Found Objects
2019
Contemplative Photography
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Light
Maxwell Wildlife Refuge, 2023
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Heaven
Fairmont Cemetary, Denver, CO
2009
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Magestic Warrior
Maxwell Wildlife Refuge, 2023
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Joined
Missouri Town, Blue Springs, MO
2021
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Yellow
2021
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Electric
Denver, CO
2010
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Portal
Full Moon, Kansas City
2022
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Charge
Denver, CO
2010
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Standing in Honor
2012
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Arch
2021
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Textured
2021
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Light
2021
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Even Space
2021
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Path
2021
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Rays
2021
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Contrast
2021
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Paint
2021
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Abandoned in Time
2011
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New Growth
2010
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Perspective
2011
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Watcher
Astoria, Oregon
2011
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Cannon Beach Morning
Cannon Beach, OR
2010
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Saint Kiri
Santa Fe, NM 2010
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The Long Goodbye
Denver, CO
2019
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Church
Council Grove, KS
2011
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Hunters
Outside Council Grove, KS
2011
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Castle Rock Arch
Castle Rocks - Kansas
2011
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Stronghold in Flatland
Castle Rocks - Kansas
2011
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Grandfather Stone
Castle Rocks - Kansas
2010
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Odin's Watching
Full Moon - Kansas City, MO
2023
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Scars
Tacoma, WA 2010
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The Wanderer
Missouri City, MO, 2021
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Wash
2012
Digital & Graphic Design
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Lightening Strikes
2022
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Release
2010
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Love Eternal
2010
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Ascending Buddha
Digital Art from Original Painting
2024
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Drown
2011
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At The End of the Day
2009
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Lady's Strength
2010
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Angel's Landing
Digital Miroring from Original Painting
2022
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Another Universe
Digital Miroring from Original Painting
2022
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Crossing Over
Digital Miroring from Original Painting
2022
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Moon Medicine
2024
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Into The Light
Digital Miroring from Original Painting
2022
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Georgia's Skull
Digital Miroring from Original Painting
2024
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Reiki
2022
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Boundaries
2023
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Crazy Fate
2023
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LOGO
2022
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LOGO
2024
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Embrace Your Sacredness Campaign
2023
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The Universe Conspires...
to the natue of your song. 2023
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Book Design
2022
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Chakra Cards Design
2020
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Expressive Arts Game Product Design
2020
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Header
2021
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Album Cover
2010
Original Sound
Jessica has composed and released original sound for the past 25 years utilizing voice, electro-accoustic composition, spoken word, loops, samples and field recordings. She has recorded and released under the name Magnetic Wind, Wend'‘eya, Jess12Crows and Mesawzee, after her grandmother’s heritage and her Mayan Calendar alignment.
Her discography can be found here, and is available for streaming at all major streaming sites.