This past week shifted my focus toward smaller works, but not in a way that felt like scaling down—more like learning how to compress a full scene into something more immediate.

I also started experimenting with hand-painted watercolor jewelry. Working at that scale forced a different kind of decision-making. There’s no room to build slowly—you have to commit to shapes and color relationships almost immediately. The pieces ended up more abstract than my larger work, but they still carry the same palette and sense of movement, just reduced to something that can be worn instead of hung.

This past weekend gave me a clearer sense of how people are actually experiencing the work—not just how it feels in the studio.

Throughout both the Lafayette Farmer’s Market and Art Walk, there was a steady interest in the magnolia stickers. More than anything, people kept asking if there were paintings that matched them. That was one of the more noticeable takeaways—when something resonates, people want to see it expanded, not just repeated in the same format.