On Becoming Resilience and Flowers

Connie Karleta Sales is a contemplative artist, poet and advocate living with neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder, a rare autoimmune disease predominately affecting the optic nerves and spinal cord. Currently living and working in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, Connie is a figurative and miniature landscape artist working predominately in mixed media and digital painting. Having limited use of her body, she paints mostly with her eyes using eye-gaze technology and by holding brushes and pens in her mouth using a mouth stick.