April’s work has been both a study of physical form and an indeterminate effort to record something unseen about the form of animals, movement, life, and the space between things. The messiness, immediacy and forgiving quality of charcoal has been a saving grace for her, keeping art both harmonic and possible in the tumultuous throws of motherhood. The study of bees, in particular, has been spiritual activism for her to somehow draw more bees into existence.