At this plateau in her life, she started to reflect upon how her work affects lives. In 2005 she started her series on vibration sounds that teach the body at all levels how to have a new experience. Bringing us into focus with the opportunities to choose new ways to live out our lives in each new moment, they seem to mirror to us things that we have forgotten about ourselves, reminding us just how powerful we truly are in changing our reality.

Vibration Sound Narratives was a four-year exploration of various jazz musicians, improvisational jazz, creative music, electric music, and alternative sound. I created abstract sketches in response to their sound streams and what I was feeling or seeing during these performances. Vibration Sound Narratives are a comprehensive system of patterns or vibrations that teach our bodies at all levels how to have a new experience. They activate a practice similar to Vibra Keys associated with sound, shape, and image in the context of emotional response. They unlock visual-spatial intelligence in the artists among us who think in pictures.

Bruton’s current inspiration comes from traveling and experiencing the events which she has transferred to the canvas. In the past, she has conceptualized works based on social issues, themes that were idealized from group discussion, made installation work that demanded the audience confront the issue, or made work that was representational and provocative in nature.

What inspires her most is the feeling that she has a social responsibility as an artist to record history and to thrust awareness about life, the earth, and life in the passing to the viewer to cast another perspective upon to view the world. These explorations affect her personally because she is focused on examining what transpires from the artist to the canvas.

She uses the canvas to stage experiences and to create an observational view for others as spectators at the event. The same approach she uses in the professional world with fellow colleagues in conceptualizing an installation or group exhibition or planning for a mural project she employs in the classroom while working with teachers and their students. in her own professional works.

Artist Highlights

• ArtWanted.com Gallery:    Art/Drawing Misc.
• Represented By:    Phantom Gallery Chicago
• Past Clients:    Taurean J. Webb, Chicago Public Schools, Karen Ryan, Tom Donaldson, Sojourner Truth African Heritage Museum, Elastic Arts Foundation