About The Artist
I’m an introverted, anxious, and spiritual little abstract artist, film photographer, poet, and writer, currently living a nomadic and minimalist lifestyle across the United States.
My passion is creating abstract paintings that convey the detailed beauty and vibes of the natural landscapes I encounter.
→ My poetry book, “Don’t Flinch,” is coming out in 2026.
Lately, inspired by my time in Santa Fe, I’ve been working with alcohol inks concocted from Amethyst stones. I find the desert landscape incredibly inspiring—its brutality, rough forms, and gradients of dawn colors in its terrain.
As I create the Amethyst Collection, there is a highly meditative and process-based quality to it. I slowly tilt the paper from different angles, again and again, to gently disturb the inks and create intricate layers of gold-foiled texture. It’s a beautifully centering process.
I’m a little Buddh-ish and new-age weirdo—stretching my body, meditation, sound baths, “sunshine therapy,” getting my hands in some soil have been incredible balms for my soul.
My creative ecosystem plays a significant role in my ongoing recovery from complex PTSD. I am my favorite version of myself when I am doing my creative work.
I “quiet the ghosts” by writing in a radically open way about my inner worlds as I excavate their strata on my Substack blog, Strange Feelings.
If I am ever down, ask me about one of my creative projects.
My love language is book recommendations, and I am an audiobook addict.
I am trying to be more present. I am trying to heal. I am trying not to miss my own life.
“I saved my own life.” —Mary Oliver
Artist Statement
Kait Mauro (b. 1991, Pittsburgh) is an experimental artist whose work explores the emotional undercurrents of lived experience. Through a multidisciplinary practice grounded in intuition and honesty, she creates her own unique visual language for what words can’t quite reach.
Guided by curiosity and ritual, Kait works with natural materials and slow processes that evoke both stillness and movement. Her work is known for its reflection of the natural world and delicate, layered textures.
She has recently begun experimenting with asemic writing—a visual approach to language that combines her love for visual art and poetry.
Mauro also incorporates film photography into her creative practice, drawn to its unpredictability and timeless cinematic quality—an extension of her desire to be more present and surrender control.
Her work holds space for reflection rather than resolution, posing questions to the viewer:
What is asking for my devotion?
What exists just outside the frame of my attention, waiting to be faced?
Where can I stand in more presence?
Now based on the coast five miles from the Gulf of Mexico, Kait finds rhythm and grounding in the seascape surrounding her studio.