My art exists because of a long habit of paying close attention to relationships—to the land, to history, and to the people and places that hold both. Before I was a painter, I spent years in community relations and equity work. That work rarely was left at the office, around the boardroom table, my mind... it simply changed shape into the layers, rhythms, and emotional arcs a piece can build, if you allow yourself time to be with it. I paint lines the way the land keeps time: small, repeating, and patient. One of my greatest teachers and dearest friends, Theresa "Corky" Larsen Jonassen, taugh...