"To drink summer out of a cup " "Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered."Ray Bradbury 1957 Summer of 08 not so great and totally awesome that duality turned my art further into a personal narration of loss, regret, and new beginnings.

Pieces 5-8 are a sequential series where a person is drowning and is in such luck! A fisher man saw his sinking hand from what seemed to be miles, the fisher man tried to pick up this poor drowning person but the fisher man was told "not to bother, this is perfect" I never saw the fisher man again in my life.
OH A SINKING SHIP
SO I SAW YOU
MAY WE DROWN ANOTHER TODAY
EMPTY RAFT DRIFTS DRAFTS
Collection of Nikki Painter

OH DEARY DEER is a response to the site of my first death in my life. No matter how precious you are you are not destined for this world for forever. But may your soul cast to the heavens.

OUT THROUGH THE INSIDE PT. 1 & 2
These pieces are meant to explore the idea of portal traveling, I was very interested in parallel worlds. In this narrative the Heroine is departing her local woods into the wild yonder.

SKULL CAT is a portrait of my friend Teddy who I had many of wonderful nights of contemplating our place in the world and taking part in some of the most awesome shenanigans ever.