I started the series Love After Love during the covid-19 pandemic shelter-in-place in 2020 when I needed strength and self-love most. As a means to try to understand the meaning behind unexpected changes and loss, I started creating 5”x7” works on paper experimenting with various processes that include printmaking, drawing, hand embroidery, writing, and laser-engraving. The title of the series is inspired by Derek Walcott’s poem Love After Love. The poem is a beautiful reminder to love and be kind to ourselves no matter where and when. It’s about courage, strength, hope, and new beginnings.

Love After Love

The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other's welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.