Come Back to the River originated as a mantra, a phrase repeated by the artist while running along the beautiful Mill river trails, an attempt to call herself back from the ceaseless and habitual rumination on mundane life things. This exhibition, a carefully curated selection of drawings and paintings, has emerged in part from this practice of "calling back."  It is an invitation to the viewer to make their own momentary return to the metaphorical river, to step away from the daily bombardment of media and its constant demands upon their attention. These works are portals, windows into something ancient and familiar, an entry point into a more embodied experience–in all phases: the envisioning, the making, the exhibition: antithetical to the calculated algorithms that daily hijack the collective imagination. Amidst these visionary works, the viewer might find an offering: a sacred space, an opportunity to access the multiplicity of human experience–not only the beautiful and the sublime, but also some of the grief and longing, anger and foreboding that haunts us in these deeply troubled times.