Ashes Monroe

Ashes Monroe video artist // writer // concept artist // photographer

Using a laser level outside the forest, makes every stick and burgeoning piece of fern a light show. All the points of ...
04/26/2026

Using a laser level outside the forest, makes every stick and burgeoning piece of fern a light show. All the points of light like a glittering map of where I'd rather put my attention than in this little black box of nothing where I'm typing this message.

12/22/2025

This image of a giant trash fire is years old now, during the pandemic (did it ever end or did it just merge with a different one?), the trash wasn't ours but it makes sense energetically so I'm sticking to it. Life is all things. It is beautiful disgusting suffering thriving life and it demands our collaboration. As I write my intentions tonight, on the longest night of the year, I'll be empowering myself to make the energetic shifts to be there for my future self and the grand everything through the darkest nights AND the brightest days (that I remain convinced, still lie ahead). Let us make the best of it. ❄️

"Man's reach exceeds his grasp" -- thankfully for me this is something I've been feeling lately. I'm best at work when ...
09/25/2025

"Man's reach exceeds his grasp" -- thankfully for me this is something I've been feeling lately. I'm best at work when I feel like I'm out of my depth. I have something in me that's trying to get out and I'm inclined to help it. There will be a lot of mistakes and bad work, before something true is said. Here is my first work-in-progress in my series of light. The dragonfly.

Getting ready for Vermont Open Studios on Oct 4th weekend at PRISM (also known as my home). This house/ life-consuming ...
09/24/2025

Getting ready for Vermont Open Studios on Oct 4th weekend at PRISM (also known as my home). This house/ life-consuming renovation and art project has been my main occupation for the past 5 years. We still have a long way to go with everything that we want to do but we're happy to be symbolically startinga new phase by opening the doors to the public and meeting other artists and art-lovers!

This painting will be on the walls as well as a few other new pieces I've been working on. Come springtime open studios we'll have something in the sculpture garden as well! 🏡🪏 🎨

Thanks to for all of their help getting oriented in the process. Check out their website for more information on all of the artists that you can see in the area.

Establishing a baseline of contact with myself.
08/21/2024

Establishing a baseline of contact with myself.

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
08/08/2024

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

Lady Datura smiling at me in the moonlight.
07/20/2024

Lady Datura smiling at me in the moonlight.

So happy that Spring is back 🌱🌼
05/20/2024

So happy that Spring is back 🌱🌼

I think this is probably the most 90's photo I have of myself.
03/15/2024

I think this is probably the most 90's photo I have of myself.

One of my mother's painting illustrations on vellum, not sure if this was my grandmother's likeness or not but it was in...
03/07/2024

One of my mother's painting illustrations on vellum, not sure if this was my grandmother's likeness or not but it was in the same folder. Should this be large or small?

Working on some miniatures to fit in the walls, I'm working up to building a visual diary of some scenes from places I u...
03/04/2024

Working on some miniatures to fit in the walls, I'm working up to building a visual diary of some scenes from places I used to live, or were otherwise important to me.

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