Kinkeeper - n. Someone who is the glue of the family, the host, the historian, the thoughtful.

This piece was created a few months into the COVID pandemic when nervous and creative energies were running high. Our caretakers, kinkeepers, and first responders were on my mind. As a therapist and a parent of young children, I felt utterly depleted and making this piece was a hopeful meditation on how our keepers might protect themselves while continuing to pour themselves into others. This idea of healing oneself while helping others is at times paradoxical and impossible and at other times a perfect pairing