Marriage is like a Painting. They are both created with time, patience, love, and respect. When there are successes we celebrate and appreciate the positive feelings. Both continuously evolve and sometimes even have ugly, unhappy moments. We don't stop there but continue on letting the changes resonate within us.

Akey likes to reveal a story to her viewers. Her abstracted realism is portrayed in colors, patches, and marks. Her paintings are created in layers. The marks and the colors are sometimes intuitive but always come back to lead the viewer into the art piece. People, social events, and emotions that have shared a moment in time become the components of her stories. Akey's captured moments in time are the catalyst that entwines a story with the process to create her paintings.