Art is a Matchmaker

Art has a funny way of matchmaking people who are meant to find each other.

Earlier this year, poet Kiki Palace emailed me after seeing a Facebook post about my new book The Kachina Women, and told me it inspired her to finally set her own long-simmering poetry manuscript free. She wondered if my Pools of Light paintings might be “the one” for her cover, and when she described her poems—ponds, trees, butterflies, fairies, growth, healing—it felt like my painting had been quietly waiting for her stories all along.

From there, the project became a quiet little creative adventure: her poems holding space for transformation and truth, my art wrapping around them like a luminous shell. Seeing Pools of Light and her words nestled together in print has been both surreal and delightful.

Her book is now officially out in the wild, radiating all those themes of nature, growth, and soul-deep healing. If you’re into poetry that feels like wandering through a magical, slightly wild garden of self-discovery, you can check it out here

Echoes of an Unveiled Soul: Poems of Identity, Healing, and Sacred Truths