Thoughtful conversations with the people of Maine

I really feel something when I see a scene and then I'm really feeling something when I'm painting and the work while I'm creating it is really hard and it's challenging and it's frustrating. But now that I have, I guess, a feeling of self-awareness to be able to label those feelings that I'm having in my paintings and in real life, they really mirror each other.

Joy is resistance really helps us to stay grounded. Despite what's going on around us, we can control the lens for which we are seeing the world.

I think when you're from a small town, your scope's a little limited, and so I think my moment was I had been in hospitality in college and was a caregiver as a nurse. So the moment just came where I had the opportunity to get into hospitality, become an entrepreneur, which I wanted as well. And really the skillset was parallel to being a caregiver and working in healthcare.