"Bondage of my Mind" Painting

Kala Cree Cullars, is an abstract expressionist, and just plain abstract. Her work is honest. She holds a MA in Forensic Psychology and is also a Certified Alcohol and Substance Use Counselor. Kala is currently a therapist at a residential facility providing treatment for the adolescent male population. Kala’s work serves to free people from the societal scar tissue of perfectionism, liberating them to express and explore with curiosity and non-judgment. Her art is a deep dive into the often disowned and repressed parts of self, a journey into the shadowed corners of the psyche where trauma, memory, and identity intersect. Each piece serves as a mirror, reflecting fragments of the human experience while inviting the viewer to confront their own ghosts. Through layered textures, haunting imagery, and deliberate symbolism, she challenges the viewer to sit with the master teacher of discomfort. In this way, art becomes both a reckoning and a reclamation—a call to integrate what has been buried so as to find wholeness in the fragmented sentences of our narratives.