In the spring of 2023, with a nervous hand, I signed a Deed of Gifts to my alma mater, Cal-State University Los Angeles Library. These gifts included over 800 drawings, documents, prints, and paintings, all created during my Self Help Graphics & Art residency and my graduate studies at CSULA. That signage verified my place as an artist during the time Sister Karen Boccalero, a Franciscan nun who was the founder of  Self Help Graphics at Arts, a non-profit art center outside the city limits and blocks away from where I was born. My next feeling of nervousness was when I started writing Charity and Penance. Healing with Our Stories was an opportunity to fully open up Sister Karen and ask, "Did I do the right thing?" The last time I saw her was in 1995; she passed away two years later and Self Help Graphics organization moved within city limits

After writing Charity and Penance  I suddenly felt healed from my nervousness. Sister Karen had always had faith in me, heaven not in mind, but as an artist.

The works on exhibit at the Deleage Gallery at Casa0101 Theater from April 18 to May 18 supplement my 10-minute screenplay, Charity and Penance.