Designs I Like

Turning Pain Bright

January 15, 2026

Spinning pain into joy I started my TeddyBear Tears Kaleidoscopes series (“deceptively bright expressions of pain and anger over repressed childhood trauma“) in 2017. I don’t know if my resistance to a palette of only/mostly dark shades and muted colours is a strategy to keep [read more]

Designs I Like

Teddy Bear Tears 666

May 1, 2019

Teddy Bear Tears 666 This piece started as a photograph of a pair of black canvas sneakers. I tweaked the image; adjusting contrast and brightness, and using a limited palette to keep muted tones. I then used a Kaleidoscope function to spin a part of [read more]

Family, Identity

Silence=Death, Birthday Post

July 25, 2017

This is Part One of a new series of posts on memory, repression, and freedom. It has some biography and information that connect my previous posts on therapy and memory to the upcoming post(s). The title has been chosen with care; Silence=Death was used in [read more]