One in a series of 47 wood panels, each representing a year of my life. The timeline was completed for my 2020 show at the Georgetown Art Center, but is now incomplete as I've grown older. I made this work for a show with other artists who all paint on wood and use the grain lines visually and conceptually. I wanted to more concretely connect the grain--each line, one year of the tree's life--to myself. Every painting has a different base color, a nod to the ways the way we physically and emotionally change from year to year. Like lessons learned from past experiences or connections made, lost and reestablished over time, they feature bold and subtle lines weaving from one panel to the next. Every panel also features exposed raw wood, a reminder that underneath all of the paint and life experiences remains something more primal and connected to nature.