Lead With Love is not a slogan.
It’s a position.

It places kindness first.
It chooses connection before conflict.
It favors understanding over reaction.

The words remain constant.
What they hold changes depending on who carries them.

Process
Each work in the Lead With Love series begins as a layered digital composition built from repeated typography. Using a digital brush, the phrase is stacked, obscured, and scaled to create depth — language becoming texture.

The composition is then produced as an archival pigment print and reworked by hand in oil paint. Layers are brushed and dragged across the surface, allowing fragments of the underlying text to remain visible. The result is a physical record of accumulation — digital structure meeting hand-painted gesture.

This initial release consists of 16 × 20 inch works created for the CSPS silent auction, with a larger series of five currently in progress for exhibition beginning in May.