Hummingbird

If not for a life-altering accident while working as a nurse, “Severson the artist” would not have emerged and blossomed. Artmaking allows her to transcend her physical self, a body in chronic pain with limited mobility, and to reinvent herself as an artist. The media she uses must be lightweight and able to be worked from a reclining position. Working in different mediums alters the demands on her body. Each creation, she says, is unique and contains a piece of her spirit.