There was a time in the mid 1990s when I had gone through my second divorce and was waffling between careers. I was living in Santa Fe, New Mexico, an artist's Mecca. I signed up for a watercolor class in the evening, joining a room full of mostly women (mostly older than I was) as we learned about paper, paint, color, and shape. I had no art training whatsoever.

My painting, I AM: Emerging from 1s and 0s, (acrylic on canvas) was selected for the juried exhibition, Voyaging, at the Hui No‘eau Visual Arts Center in Maui, Hawaii.