The Early Shift
This series comes from my earlier days as an artist, a time when I was still learning to trust my process and find my voice. Becoming and Release reflect not only the natural rhythm of growth within the landscape, but also my own—what I was stepping into, and what I was learning to let go.
$192
Acrylic on canvas
12″x16″
Across the water, the city stands steady—familiar, unchanged.
But something is shifting.
Not all at once. Not loudly.
Just beneath the surface, in the light, in the air—
in the way everything feels slightly different than it did before.
You can sense it before you can name it.
That quiet pull toward something new.
Becoming is about that transition.
The space where you are no longer who you were,
but not quite who you’re becoming.
Because growth doesn’t always look like movement.
Sometimes, it looks like stillness—
right before everything changes.
$192
Acrylic on canvas
12″x16″
The sky burns warmer here—richer, fuller, as if something has finally been let go.
What once felt held, contained, or carried
begins to soften.
There’s a shift in the air.
A lightness that wasn’t there before.
You can feel the exhale.
Release is about that moment.
The quiet decision to loosen your grip—
to stop holding what no longer needs to be carried.
Because letting go isn’t about losing something.
It’s about making space
for what comes next.
