In January of 2025 I felt the intuitive urge to stop using a smartphone and switch to a flip phone to simplify, create boundaries, decrease my scrolling time, and to teach my children that we don’t need to be attached to tech at all times (even though it has positive uses.) I didn’t make the final switch until June. It took me a while. In the end of May, while still having my iphone, I began a new practice of having it not be near my bed and I wasn’t allowed to use it in the am until I brought my coffee to my studio and did a fast painting of it with some rules. Then I was “allowed” to get into the business of the day and use a device. It was/is a ritual and experiment to start the day and give myself the reminder to focus on seeing what is right in front of me and take a pause. By early June I made the transition to a flip phone. I continued this morning practice of painting my coffee cup at my studio desk. End of May to currently still doing it…slowly resolving the works on paper into finished works. Ideally shown or sold in monthly groups.