Geographic Compositions
Angel Puzzle Series
The angel puzzle design was inspired by the imagery of snow angels. Kristin’s youngest son Daniel, who has mild autism, finds solace in making snow angels. Angel-shaped puzzle pieces represent healers carrying Jesus’s love to lonely and marginalized people.
Each Angel Puzzle Series painting incorporates specific geographic and cultural references — Round Rock, France, Czech Republic, Mexico, Alaska, Korea, England, New Orleans. The series spans from 2015 to 2025, with the most recent work, “Hawaii,” completed in 2025.
Water drops in the compositions symbolize autistic children and lonely individuals isolated from society. Other elements — marbles, silver balls, beads, pearls — represent lonely souls estranged from the crowd.
Kristin’s MethodRead the Creation Process
I was sitting in my backyard (Eclipse of Texas)
I drew a flower by close-up while looking at the branch (Angel Flower Q — 1, 2)
I also painted a vase and fruit on an outdoor table (Blessing Pocket, Joy)
The table was mapped with a bird’s eye view (France)
The background is Angel Town (Czech)
The cross is the main point in my paintings (Victory over COVID 19, One Day)
USAF Military Family Life
USAF Military Family Life
Mixed Media (30″ × 40″ × 1.5″) 2022
My husband retired after serving 20 years in the US Air Force as a lieutenant colonel. (USAF jets are flying in the sky.) He also went on deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan as a doctor. He is a Caregiver (Angel Puzzle) who treats wounded soldiers (Water Drop, Marble — Hyperrealism) on the battlefield. My family moved from place to place whenever my husband received orders from the Air Force.
CA — MD (Black-eyed Susan.) — FL (Orange Blossom.) — CA (California Poppy.) — NC (Flowering Dogwood.) — GERMANY — TX (Texas Bluebonnet.) (The typeface was applied as a collage technique in the work.)
I painted the houses my family lived in and the flowers of each state. And the Texas boots were designed in the shape of a vase, and points were given to the boots with a map of the United States along with Hawaii, and each area where my family lived was marked with crystals. The green leaf on the vase is a heart (the love of Jesus) design. As our family goes wherever we go, guided by the Lord, the golden angel puzzles fly in rows and reach the cross.
Victory Over COVID-19, One Day
Victory Over COVID-19
Mixed Media (30″ × 40″ × 1.5″) 2020
Covid floats in the air. Heaven’s door opens and the light of the Holy Spirit shines brightly from the cross of angel puzzles. Finally, the light of the Holy Spirit destroys the Covid virus. The sharp points from the light of the Holy Spirit punctures the virus. The virus is blown apart.
The virus pieces are sucked into a black hole that is surrounded by penrose stairs. The steps on the penrose stairs have the words “COVID” and “Corona vaccine” and “Jesus” on them in different languages. Covid comes out after being sucked into a maze of black holes in a garbage can in Texas.
As the whole world passes through the road of the crucifixion of suffering Jesus, the Covid vaccine is created and saves many people. Covid infected people are symbolized by silver beads, drops of water, and marble. The angel puzzles scattered throughout are caregivers who take care of patients with the love of the Lord.
In times of hardship and adversity, we must overcome together, helping each other with the hope of a bright future. May you have peace of mind in the Lord while admiring Victory over COVID-19.
France
France
Mixed Media (30″ × 40″ × 1.5″) 2019
The motives of the work, France, are masks, ribbons and feathers, and owls, and the painting technique in which the side and front views of the vase intersect is in the style of Cubism. The water droplets in the vase are the tears of owls and are painted with hyper-realistic techniques.
On the rock of Saint Michael’s Mount, I drew the design of the Eiffel Tower, a symbol of France, and depicted the reflection in the water with abstract expressionism. You can also see kayaks, French flags and crosses.
The design of the table cover expresses a building in the center of Paris from the perspective of a bird’s eye view. In addition, each space where a building meets another dot signifies the digital internet culture in modern society. It is a message that angel puzzles visit lonely souls (drops of water) in the crowd and heal them with the love of the Lord.
New Orleans
New Orleans
Mixed Media (30″ × 40″ × 1.5″) 2020
The Louisiana hot pepper sauce bottle expresses the cat’s body, the mask depicts the cat’s eyes, and the feathers are a technique that embodies inanimate objects with its tail.
The motif of the Mardi Gras Celebration is a crown hat, a trumpet (a sad jazz note comes out of the trumpet), an umbrella, a beads necklace, and a Louisiana Iris drawn in an oriental style, and my autograph is in the red box.
The table cover on which the bottle is placed is expressed in a Cemetery design, and St. Louis Cathedral and buildings are painted in pop art style, and the reflection of the Mississippi River is abstract expressionism. Tiny paints scattered over the sky are action painting modern art style. The cross 3 in the bottle is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, and the light of the cross illuminates the darkness.
Bluebonnet of Austin
Round Rock 1, Texas2020
Eclipse of Texas