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Creativity as Inquiry

My creative practice is where research and restoration meet. Whether I’m stitching cloth, shaping words, or designing frameworks for creative renewal, each project explores how imagination helps us make meaning, metabolize change, and mend what’s been fractured—within ourselves and our culture.

Creativity isn’t just self-expression — it’s self-restoration.

I approach artmaking as inquiry: a way of thinking, feeling, and knowing that bridges body, story, and spirit. These works—visual, written, and conceptual—trace a single question across many forms:

What does it mean to live creatively, and what might be restored when we do?

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JANE AWESOME, ACME CO.

Visual & Textile Work

Textile work

My current textile work examines the relationship between story, voice, and power—how cloth, text, and handwork can reveal or distort truth. Each piece functions as a meditation on communication and control: how language can both repair and erase, and how creativity helps us rethread collective story.

Your Voice Matters (in progress)

A 48” quilt exploring the courage to speak within systems of silence. Improvisationally pieced from indigo and denim—the fabrics of labor and endurance—it layers text, soundwave, and hand-stitched code to map the struggle between expression and erasure.

Untitled: Blackout Quilt Project (in progress)

A series using blackout poetry to reconstruct foundational American texts. By redacting words until meaning reverses, the work examines how language itself can be both weapon and remedy—inviting reflection on civic imagination, distortion, and cultural memory.

Collaborative Visual work

Who Decides? The Stories of Women (in development)

Created in collaboration with oil painter Victoria Eaglebear, Who Decides is a multi-modal exhibition reimagining how history remembers women. Each pairing in the series features a portrait by Victoria and a mixed media visual poem by me—two works in dialogue on the same scale and substrate.

The project explores voice, visibility, and authorship: who controls cultural narratives, and how women’s identities have been shaped, silenced, or reclaimed across time. Each pairing centers a familiar figure—from Medusa and Mary Magdalene to Billie Holiday and Cleopatra—inviting viewers to reconsider the stories they thought they knew.

Beyond the gallery walls, the project expands into a companion book, podcast, educational and discussion materials and community workshops that invite participants to explore their own narratives of voice and visibility. Together, these elements form a living conversation about representation, ownership, and the ongoing act of re-storying our collective memory.

Who Decides is not only about the women on the wall—it’s about all of us: the stories we inherit, the ones we resist, and the ones we are still brave enough to tell.

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Frameworks for Creative Living

These frameworks translate my research in expressive arts, psychology, and narrative practice into everyday rhythms that help people reconnect with creativity as a source of resilience. Each offers a simple, repeatable structure for returning to presence, imagination, and meaning—without pressure, performance, or perfection.

Creative Micro Moments™

A three-part ritual—Calm, Connect, Close—that restores creative presence in the middle of real life. Anchored in neuroscience and habit design, this framework helps busy or burned-out individuals rediscover their creative pulse through small, sensory moments of making and mindfulness.

The Artbeat Framework™

A flexible, intuitive rhythm for nurturing a sustainable creative life. The five zones—Soak, Play, Shape, Reveal, and Deepen—reflect the natural cycles of creative energy. Rather than chasing consistency, Artbeat helps makers listen for what their creativity needs today and respond with compassion, not control.

Writing & Narrative Work

My written work explores imagination as a lens for healing, belonging, and re-storying the world. Whether through speculative fiction or historical narrative, each project asks how story shapes culture—and how reimagining our stories might help us reclaim what it means to be human.

The Reweaving Trilogy (in progress)

Set on a remote island where buildings breathe, dragons remember, and magic arises through relationship, this literary fantasy trilogy explores what it means to live in right connection—with self, others, and the world. Its quiet revolution isn’t about restoring a broken system but reimagining wholeness: difference as strength, belonging as recognition, and harmony as something chosen rather than enforced.

At its heart, the series asks a single, enduring question: What if magic isn’t power, but presence?

The Pack Horse Librarian Project (in development)

Set in 1930s Appalachian Kentucky, this historical fiction novel follows a quilter-turned-librarian who delivers banned and beloved books through the mountains as part of the Pack Horse Library initiative. When the courage to stay curious becomes dangerous, she must decide whether to protect her community from ideas—or by them.

Blending research and imagination, the story examines censorship, belonging, and the moral power of curiosity, reminding us that reading, empathy, and imagination are acts of quiet defiance.