“My art is an echo of what I am, what I was, and what I hope to be. Art is a really emotional process for me. I hope that with my art, I can help guide people into what they need to feel.” - Ocean Stever

Ocean is a writer and self-taught mixed-media visual artist from Gresham, Oregon. Ocean’s primary medium is collage, through which she weaves her creative writing practice and experience in drawing/painting to create layered and thought-provoking works. Through imagery of the natural world, renaissance iconography, and human anatomy, Ocean processes complex feelings around religion, mortality, and the human experience. Using found text she invites the viewer to thoughtfully engage with her questions, vacillating between satirical ominousity and vulnerable sincerity.