08/17/2026
I feel grateful as I reflect on my work over the last year and prepare to share it with you in person this November at the
My work this year has been divided into two parts: one is a dance of light, life, form, and color, and the other comments on the tragedies that afflict humankind. This world is so perfectly imperfect, and for every dark shadow there is a symphony of light waiting to be discovered by those who are brave enough to watch and listen.
I would be lying if I said my one soul purpose in making art is to illuminate and inspire. While that is a huge part of the why, I have always created art to understand and, quite honestly, to survive. How could I ever keep it all inside? One would surely go mad if they tried.
Following the dreams of your heart has never been easy, and it’s not about fame or fortune; I have found it is necessary to express the song of your soul however best you can. If you don’t, the world won’t have it, and you will always wonder what could have been if you tried. So use those canvases, write that poem, do the thing. The world needs your song.
In a 1914 letter from his home in Giverny, Monet wrote about returning to his canvas to paint during World War I:
“Yesterday I resumed work. It’s the best way to avoid thinking of these sad times. All the same, I feel ashamed to think about my little researches into form and color while so many people are suffering and dying.”
Years later, on November 12, 1918, the day after the Armistice, Monet dedicated his massive Water Lilies mural (Les Grandes Décorations) to France as a monument to peace, now on display at the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris.
I often think of his sentiments when I paint. Sometimes finding beauty in a world full of confusion and darkness is the best form of resistance. May the seeds we sow today know the light of tomorrow.
Much Love
~
LET
