Aloha,

As an artist, it is always tough to round out a series. You want to put all you have learned into that one final piece. All the skills and technical parts of the creations you built along the way must come together in that final painting or sculpture. It is at this time the influences on our life and work come to the surface. The ones who critiqued the preceding pieces and the opinions they shared with you about your work. Did it matter? Did it count? Did you listen? I did.

The one person I listen to the most and am influenced by more than any when it comes to my art is my mother. Her talent flows forward like a blazing sun. Her support is like none other. Her opinions matter and so does her art. Each one of her pieces a continuation of the last. Each lesson she learns is utilized in the next canvas. Every stroke a direct result of her previous painting. Each of her finished pieces so different than the last, yet so similar. A true example of the lifelong series in flux.

Just like my mother’s influence on my life and work, this speaker is many lessons in time learned from all the previous pieces in the series. A reflection of all that was learned from the previous speakers I have created. The result of what was said in those critiques and what I heard from them. A specimen of what knowledge was gained over the last 10 years. One more step in my own life long series. I give you the JANE JKM.

Further details to come…

Thanks mom…