Andrea Joyce Heimer
Sometimes I Am Fine And Content And Then A Dark Mood Will Come Over Me, As If I Have Momentarily Stepped Into A Dark Forest And I Linger There, Lost, Until Just As Quickly I Step Back Into The Sun And Go On As If Nothing Happened, Nothing At All, 2022
Acrylic and oil pastel on panel
80 x 60 in
Andrea Joyce Heimer
The Longest Part Of My Day At Charles M. Russell High School In Montana, Was The Pause While Waiting To Be Able To Sit Somewhere In The Lunch Room., 2022
Acrylic and oil pastel on panel
40 x 60 in
Andrea Joyce Heimer
Which Group Is Mine? Can I Go With This One, Or That One? Or Do I Have To Go Alone?, 2022
Acrylic and oil pastel on panel
60 x 40 in
Andrea Joyce Heimer
When We Played Games Of Hide And Seek As Children I Both Relished And Feared The Feeling Of Being Hidden And Looked For But Not Yet Found. Relished Because It Was Peaceful In Hiding, Feared Because What If I Disappeared., 2022
Acrylic and oil pastel on panel
40 x 60 in
Andrea Joyce Heimer
My Insomnia Reaches New Heights In The Dead Of Winter And It Is Like My Body Is Split In Half Between The Awake World And The Dream One, And My Body Fights Herself To Be On One Side Or The Other. Snow Makes This Worse Somehow, And I Often Think Of The Man Running The Snowplow, Usually The Only Other Person Awake But With A Job To Do, Pushing Mounds Of Snow Off The Roads In A Down Jacket That Hugs His Body Like A Cloud., 2022
Acrylic and oil pastel on panel
60 x 80 in
Andrea Joyce Heimer
Me Leaving The Hospital, In Between Being Born And Being Adopted, On The Way To Foster Care On A Spring Day In !981, In Billings Montana., 2022
Acrylic and oil pastel on panel
60 x 80 in
Andrea Joyce Heimer
When I Am Restless And Cannot Leave, I Think Of Nothing But Migration, Migrations Of All Kinds, How The Need To Go Away Is Engrained And Not Some Bad Part Of Me, But Engrained, Natural, and Heartbreaking., 2022
Acrylic and oil pastel on panel
80 x 60 in
Andrea Joyce Heimer
I Pass Through Threshold After Threshold, Often Feeling Like A Person Lost Or In Darkness, Sometimes With The Flicker Of A Candle To Light The Next Passage, Sometimes With Smoke Hiding It Away., 2022
Acrylic and oil pastel on panel
40 x 60 in
Andrea Joyce Heimer
Between One Drink And Too Many Drinks There Is A Tipsy Place That I Love To Visit, An In Between Place Before The Bad Times. It Is Like Going From One House To Another., 2022
Acrylic and oil pastel on panel
60 x 40 in
Andrea Joyce Heimer
Sunset Traffic Makes Individual Worlds Of Each Of Our Cars. We Are Both Moving And Stuck. Both Alone And Stuffed Into The Road Like Sardines Sometimes My Car Is My Whole World., 2022
Acrylic and oil pastel on panel
60 x 80 in
Andrea Joyce Heimer
There Was A Train Bridge In Great Falls Montana That Sometimes We Jumped From Into A Snake Shaped River That Smelled Of Frogs And Fish, And From The Moment Our Feet Left The Bridge But Before We Hit The Water We Were Neither Earth Nor Sky Bound, Our Young Nude Bodies Hurtling Through The Sky Like Pink Lawn Darts., 2022
Acrylic and oil pastel on panel
60 x 80 in
