Shortly before Christmas, my mama received a shocking cancer diagnosis. One day we thought they were looking at a life without tacos and hot sauce, and hours later, we had confirmation that tacos and hot sauce would return–but not before a regimen of chemo, radiation, eventual surgery, and a whole lotta stress. This fundraiser is to provide our community with a way to support, and ensure that my mom's focus can be on healing, and not worrying about financial stability.
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The artist's statement:
“You gotta learn to let people love you.
2025 wrapped up with so much chaos in the world and inside me. Artist, Teacher, Fireman, Thief...a playground rhyme that doesn't age well, I change the words, I learn new things, my body grows a tumor, and I have decisions to make.
Weirdly and suddenly the world looks like starlight and love even though it's on fire. And maybe the fire seems like a waste to some, but to me, my choice is to let it change me.
Art is my choice. Art is how i filter the devastation and tragedy. Art is the witness. Art becomes a Resistance, while i learn to drop mine.
I grew cancer. I make Art. I am a voice, my voice is with the trees and dirt...river and wind.
My voice is in this woodgrain. My voice is in these layers of color...life's diversity, like Love - like Art, like a cluster of misguided cells in mutiny, like excision, precise, practiced, planned, like healing♡ chaotic and nonlinear.
What I know: You gotta learn to let people love you.
What I don't: All the rest♡
I'm testing it out as a theory and wildly different life
B.”
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Support from the community will be used in thoughtful, structured ways to help meet essential needs like housing, utilities, food access, transportation, and small comfort items that make treatment a little more manageable. To protect continued access to critical health coverage, all funds are carefully administered by a trusted proxy and used only for direct payments for bills or supplies rather than cash or unrestricted income. This approach allows the community to offer meaningful, practical help while helping safeguard ongoing eligibility for essential Medicaid coverage.