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This artist is a synesthete, as are many creative people. Synesthesia is a neurological condition in which information meant to stimulate one sense clearly stimulates other senses. Synesthetes might see music as colors, tastes as shapes, smells as pointy or blunt. This artist finds satisfaction in expressing her mixed sensory perceptions as color, texture and form. These pieces are complete when the artist feels she has expressed her sensory confusion in an appreciable manner so others might also comprehend.This painting expresses a complex taste experience. The undertaste is blue. The smoothness is orange. The red is bright sweetness. The shapes of this taste are comforting and joyous. Can you see the flavor?

After a childhood consumed by dedicated doodling, Suki studied drawing and painting at Kansas City Art Institute, earning a BFA. After graduating, she traveled the world to study Transcendental Meditation and taught the technique for years. Suki also enjoys a creative outlet in the literary arts. In 2014, she won First Place in the Women on Writing Flash Fiction Competition. In 2016, she won First Place in the Faulkner Literary Competition, Poetry Division. She works impulsively with underlying intent - throwing down colors and shapes then conferring with them to see what they want. Is it contrast, harmony, a statement, something absurd? Maybe she’s just expressing an emotion. At times, she abandons it all, only to return and...