CAMI BURRUSS

How can I open up to more love in my life? In a perverse way, I was glad for the stitches, glad it would show, that there would be scars. - Janet Finch Acrylic and thread on canvas/ 5x5in (2018)

To understand what July means to me is to first understand where I come from On some occasions, we must accept our circumstances and adapt accordingly. Acrylic and gouache on canvas/ 5x5in (2018)

Acrylic on canvas/ 5x5in (2018)

"I'm a Firm Believer That Some People" Collage on canvas/ 5x5in (2018)

It is true, we are but faint-hearted crusaders, even the walkers, nowadays, who undertake no persevering, never-ending enterprises... If you have paid your debts, and made your will, and settled all your affairs, and are a free man -- then you are ready for a walk. -Henry David Thoreau Acrylic on canvas/ 5x5in (2018)

A day in the kitchen. 5x5in (2018)

'The Inevitability of Heart & its Longing' 5x5in (2018)

'Figuring it out' Acrylic and collage on canvas/ 5x5in (2018)

'If You Ever Read This Know That I Never Stopped. I Miss You' Acrylic on canvas/ 5x5in (2018)

Dance with the one who brung ya - Brene Brown Ink, highlighter, and paper on canvas/ 5x5in (2018)

'a dewy-eyed evening in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.' Watercolour and rice paper on canvas/ 5x5in (2019)

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. Grief, when it comes, is nothing we expect it to be. - Joan Didion Acrylic on canvas/ 5x5in (2019)

Was supposed to paint this yesterday, but then life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant. Acrylic on canvas/ 5x5in (2019)

BLOOM WHERE YOU ARE PLANTED Acrylic on canvas/ 5x5in (2019)

*almost-doctors Acrylic on canvas/ 5x5in (2019)

(noun. Portuguese) 'the love that remains; a longing for someone or something that you had loved and then lost' - Other Wordly Thread on canvas/ 5x5in (2019)

'...the house is gone, but the street remain' - Rivers, The Tallest Man on Earth Gouache and paper on canvas/ 5x5in (2019)

I'm a visual learner (shocking) and like to draw to remember medical info. I'm also studying for a board exam right now, which means at the end of the night I don't have much mental energy to decide what to paint. So until my exam, my daily pieces will probably be medical doodles/notes. Ink, highlighter, and paper on canvas/ 5x5in (2019)

'do you like the view i show you,' Ink and paper on canvas/ 5x5in (2019)

The problem is that chaos is always only ever sitting just across the table, frequently glancing up from its newspaper, from its coffee cup filled with discolored and imploding stars. Because chaos waits. Waits for you to notice it, for you to realize it's the most dazzling thing you've ever seen... Because we are not designed to be more than anything else; - Ella Frances Sanders Collage and acrylic on canvas/ 5x5in (2019)

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