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In a simple moment, my love of art is sitting at my table in front of the window, sunlight reflecting off the watercolor pooling, swirling and soaking in the paper. This is where I am happy, I am me. This watercolor process started while I was in the Dominican Republic visiting my in-laws. I found my place on the front porch, kneeling on the floor in the sun, experimenting with watercolors. With the warmth of the sun, no interference from my family, as they were back in the states, and unlimited time, I was able to freely paint watercolors all day. I was on a mission to paint what I could see in front of me, and I did daily for three weeks. The beautiful, mountainous landscape presented me with the warm morning sun racking over the contrast of cool shadows on the trees. This feeling was what I wanted to paint and my color choices reflected that feeling. My experience was so transformative that I continued to paint daily back home in Bristol, CT. Although, not the same feeling of warmth, I found a beautiful light coming from my bedroom window and that kept me going. It was here, in the middle of January 2023, that the work became more abstract. My mountainous landscapes disappeared and I decided to fully focus on lights and darks, where the sky meets the horizon line. My beautiful brush marks from the Dominican landscapes carried over into my abstract work. My color choices were also based in constrasts. The final brush strokes of color and texture are a metallic, adding little touches of glimmer, reminiscent of the dewy light from the mountains in the Dominican Republic.