The moon is strung by hand 🌙

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I love this idea. It’s a poetic way of expressing that our efforts—through our bodies, our gestures, our choices—actively shape the world as we experience it. It suggests that there is power in even the smallest actions. The signals we send, what we do and how we do it, can be as meaningful and as beautiful as the moon above.

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After working for many years as a psychologist, it is clear to me that the smallest gestures carry immense power.

Again and again, I have witnessed how subtle signals—attention, care, restraint, kindness—can alter inner worlds and ripple outward. Within each of us is something hopeful and meaningful: the capacity to direct our energy, to signal love, to create connection. We string the moon for ourselves and for others through these quiet, deliberate acts.

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My earth pigment paintings are formed through layers of energetic matter, gradually building images that can elicit response in the viewer—feelings, memories, recognition. Each layer is a gesture, imbued with both conscious and unconscious intention, reflecting the way meaning accumulates over time.

The moon is strung by hand is also about the power of one. How we choose to spend our precious, analog energy is an act of resistance—sometimes even rebellion. In a culture that often rewards speed, scale, and disembodiment, working slowly with our hands and carefully choosing the ways we are in the world is a power.. My paintings are meant both to be gestures and to reflect gestures.

This is how we string the moon: through small, intentional acts.