Disappointed #3, The New Year
Price range: $20.00 through $600.00
January, 2025
12″ x 12″
Acrylic, Collage, Oil Pastels, Colored Pencil on wood panel
Disappointed #3, The New Year turns toward the light.
The word HOPE appears throughout the painting—layered, repeated, impossible to ignore. But it didn’t begin that way.
I started this piece the same way as the others, writing over and over across the surface: “I am so disappointed.”
And then, partway through, something shifted.
The words changed.
“I am so hopeful.”
That transition is still visible in the lower right-hand corner—where one way of seeing gives way to another.
The colors lift. A sun emerges. The weight begins to loosen.
This piece doesn’t deny what came before—it transforms it. Choosing, deliberately, to add light rather than more darkness.
Disappointment #2, The Month After comes in a black frame.







