A Colorful Dream is an exploration of color as emotional landscape, narrative architecture, and the territory of childhood discovery. At its center is a young girl moving through eight fully constructed monochromatic worlds — one for each color of the spectrum, plus a final world of rainbow — each environment built entirely by hand in my studio over five years. She was six years old when we began, and nearly eleven when we finished.

The work is rooted in deep research into the human experience of color: I reached out to my community and gathered thousands of responses about what each specific color evoked — memories, feelings, associations, stories. Bakers, florists, farmers, and makers of all kinds contributed their skills and their perspectives, and those voices are woven into the fabric of each world. The result is not one person's vision of color but a collective one, filtered through a single artistic lens.

Since its debut in 2017, the exhibition has toured to more than a dozen institutions across the country. For its presentation at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art in Oklahoma, the work was expanded with an entirely new chapter — a world of black, exploring color in its most complete and paradoxical form.

A Colorful Dream has traveled to more than a dozen institutions since 2017, including solo exhibitions at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art (Norman, OK), the Lyman Allyn Art Museum (New London, CT), and the Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, VT (2020)