​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​From the Artist:​

I have been creating for as far back as I can remember. In fact, there are few memories I have of myself where I'm not wielding at the least - a Care Bears coloring book and a box of crayons. I love to create. I love the process of creating. 

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A couple of my favorite inspirational quotes:

'I will make everything around me beautiful. That will be my life.' - Elsie De Wolfe 

 'At the end of this life, when I stand before God, I would hope to not have a single bit of talent left & I could say unto Him...I used everything You gave me.' - Erma Bombeck

As for my work, I don't really have any set process or practices that are routinely incorporated into my pieces. Honestly, I don't even ever have any real plan or direction for any of the pieces I create. But instead, each is developed purely in that moment, based off of where I am and how I am feeling at that specific moment in time - mentally, emotionally and spiritually. I tend to be more of an intuitive processor. It is all about the internal connection between myself and that specific piece of work.  Therefore, I approach each piece individually, separate of all others - allowing myself the opportunity to capture bits of myself and my emotion by "feeling things out" as I go. Colors, Shapes, Materials, Patterns, Movement, Placement, Subject Matter...each decision deeply personal and often difficult to genuinely deduce to words that communicates wholly who I am in this world and who I am to the world around me. 

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​Moments throughout the course of my life have revealed to me that the world can sometimes be a dark and confusing place. Understanding ourselves, let alone the world around us and the entirety of its existence and its inhabitance...  My art has always served as a therapeutic outlet for myself, something I use to express things I would otherwise suppress, aiding in my ability to process and release things beyond my control - helping to bring a sense of peace and balance to my life. 

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With my art, the intent is to always resonate things of beauty back into the world around me to be shared with and by everyone. Such things as - strength, empowerment, authenticity, inner peace, personal growth, acceptance, understanding, forgiveness, redemption, kindness, beauty itself, love… I want my life and my life's work to erase even the tiniest portion of negativity from this world, and in its place forge a path of hope, and joy, and promise.  

                                                                                                                                                                      -Rachel Rice-Baham, Abstractionist & Collagist​​