Kentucky is some of the best parts of me and I’m proud to be from there. I feel strongly that Kentucky and Appalachia are one of the most beautiful, deeply precious, and widely overlooked places in America.

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ORIGINAL ART DETAILS

Paintsville Lake in Early November, ‘24,
Chalk pastel and mixed media on paper
20 × 28 inches (Original artwork only)

My Mom grew up in Paintsville, Eastern Kentucky, near West Virginia. My Meemee and extended family still live there. Going back to the mountains reminds me of being a kid again - taking Meem’s pontoon boat out on the lake and swimming in the mud to shore. It reminds me of getting Dairy Queen (not franchised) and summers and holidays and climbing up the back “hill” to roam in the forest for hours - of running up the holler (a narrow road and neighborhood in the ridge between two mountains where traditionally, many of the same family generations would live) - of my cousins and funerals when the men carried the casket up the mountain to where every person buried there is my kin, and afterward singing bluegrass hymns a capella in the tiny Baptist church and the reunions where every dish was casserole.

Visiting Paintsville now is quiet and sad and hard at times. And still, being there feels important.