Kelly Louise Judd’s Curious Paintings Fuse Humans and Earth

Kel­ly Louise Judd is an artist liv­ing in Kansas City, Mis­souri (my home­town!), cre­at­ing the curi­ous paint­ings you see here. They’re often sur­re­al com­po­si­tions devoid of a back­ground, which beg us to pon­der these sym­bols’ greater mean­ings, like how human fig­ures and ani­mals are com­bined with flowers—a poet­ic reminder that we’re all one with this Earth.

Kel­ly has an Etsy shop! There, you can pur­chase prints, pil­lows, and orig­i­nal paintings.