When she took art during her freshman year at Belding High School she was struck by the idea that our eyes are like “living cameras” and art is a way of capturing those images in a variety of unique, personal expressions.
One minute she was going to work feeling on top of the world — she’d just sent in another chapter of her doctoral dissertation. It was 7:30 a.m., January 29, 2018. She was talking to her daughter in Pennsylvania as she drove, part of her normal routine.
Roads were wet, snowy and the day was murky. A large Chevy truck fish-tailed toward her.