Though I have been surrounded by dull brick and concrete for the past 30 years, I have always managed to elevate through dreams to places full of lush vegetation and flowers. When I have these dreams I don't want to wake. These are the times I am grateful for my bed, a moment of freedom and saving grace.
This canvas includes plants from my prison Zen Healing Garden calling attention to the beauty in nature and the lack of it in prisons.
This painting was commissioned for the exhibition The Only Door I Can Open: Women Exposing Prison through Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2025.
