September 4 - October 25, 2026
205 Ocean Avenue Studios
Portland, Maine
Handprints on the Sky is Raquel P Miller’s first solo-show opening September 4th, 2026 at 205 Ocean Avenue Studios in Portland Maine. Featuring a collection of both ceramic and painted works, Raquel’s body of work plays with new patterns and symbols through her continued exploration of the night sky as an altar for grief. The introduction of new symbols marks this transformative phase in her work and in her relationship to grief.
Photo credit: Raquel P Miller
September 4 - October 25, 2026
205 Ocean Avenue Studios
Portland, Maine
In Handprints on the Sky, Raquel P Miller continues the cosmic exploration in the night sky as an altar for grief through paintings and clay, introducing a body of work that illustrates grief’s many forms and its transformative effects on life. Handprints on the Sky holds grief with a released grasp, making space for new signs and visual language with the introduction of the Blue Morpho and four petaled flower, Forsythia, acting as guides and carriers from one plane of time to another along grief’s journey.
Raquel’s ceramic work grounds us with carved surfaces adorned with handprints and butterflies, or painterly glazed surfaces on slab altars where colors and shapes melt and fuse into one another. Her paintings play with the repetition and pattern of these new personal symbols, creating ceremonial and sacred compositions in a language of their own.
Photo Credit: Raquel P Miller
September 4 - October 25, 2026
205 Ocean Avenue Studios
Portland, Maine
Continuing her work with the altar as it shapeshifts between a place of burial, a window, a doorway, and a threshold—a space neither here nor there, her work moves in cycles. The Blue Morpho carries us through doorways, connecting with both the cosmos of the nightsky and the blue skies of a sunny day, but also drops us in places where we are both here and there, neither here nor anywhere, existing in spaces entirely in between. The threshold acts as a dynamic space for reflection and transformation, moments before the change itself.
Grief’s journey carries us through life in a way that connects us to the expansiveness of time and the expansiveness of love rather than through its limits alone. Grief connects us to the past, present, and future all at once. Raquel’s work once highlighted absence and loss in the expansive distance between her place on earth to the nightsky, where her dead relatives and ancestors are held. In her recent works, her arm is still outstretched to the sky, but it begins to fill the space as an altar adorned with Blue Morphos and Forsythia, communicating with her loved ones and her grief itself.
Photo Credit: Raquel P Miller
September 4 - October 25, 2026
205 Ocean Avenue Studios
Portland, Maine
Handprints on the Sky asks how the sky can be both a vessel for grief, and altar to it; how it can be both a lens to our world, dreams, or planes of existence while also acting as a doorway to them; and how some days we live in grief’s threshold, and the next day on either side of it. This journey is not linear. If we honor the expansiveness of grief, we transform it, and it transforms us, carrying us across the sky like the moon setting, making space for the sun to rise over fields of yellow flowers pointed to the sun.
Photo Credit: Raquel P Miller
September 4 - October 25, 2026
205 Ocean Avenue Studios
Portland, Maine
Photo Credit: Raquel P Miller
September 4 - October 25, 2026
205 Ocean Avenue Studios
Portland, Maine
Photo Credit: Raquel P Miller
September 4 - October 25, 2026
205 Ocean Avenue Studios
Portland, Maine
Photo Credit: Raquel P Miller
September 4 - October 25, 2026
205 Ocean Avenue Studios
Portland, Maine
Photo Credit: Raquel P Miller
September 4 - October 25, 2026
205 Ocean Avenue Studios
Portland, Maine
Photo Credit: Raquel P Miller
September 4 - October 25, 2026
205 Ocean Avenue Studios
Portland, Maine
Photo Credit: Raquel P Miller
September 4 - October 25, 2026
205 Ocean Avenue Studios
Portland, Maine
Photo Credit: Raquel P Miller
September 4 - October 25, 2026
205 Ocean Avenue Studios
Portland, Maine
Photo Credit: Raquel P Miller
September 4 - October 25, 2026
205 Ocean Avenue Studios
Portland, Maine
Photo Credit: Raquel P Miller
September 4 - October 25, 2026
205 Ocean Avenue Studios
Portland, Maine
Photo Credit: Raquel P Miller
September 4 - October 25, 2026
205 Ocean Avenue Studios
Portland, Maine
Photo Credit: Raquel P Miller
September 4 - October 25, 2026
205 Ocean Avenue Studios
Portland, Maine
Photo Credit: Raquel P Miller
September 4 - October 25, 2026
205 Ocean Avenue Studios
Portland, Maine
Photo Credit: Raquel P Miller
September 4 - October 25, 2026
205 Ocean Avenue Studios
Portland, Maine
Photo Credit: Raquel P Miller
September 4 - October 25, 2026
205 Ocean Avenue Studios
Portland, Maine
Photo Credit: Raquel P Miller
September 4 - October 25, 2026
205 Ocean Avenue Studios
Portland, Maine
Photo Credit: Raquel P Miller
September 4 - October 25, 2026
205 Ocean Avenue Studios
Portland, Maine
Photo Credit: Raquel P Miller
September 4 - October 25, 2026
205 Ocean Avenue Studios
Portland, Maine
Photo Credit: Raquel P Miller
September 4 - October 25, 2026
205 Ocean Avenue Studios
Portland, Maine
Photo Credit: Raquel P Miller
September 4 - October 25, 2026
205 Ocean Avenue Studios
Portland, Maine
Photo Credit: Raquel P Miller
September 4 - October 25, 2026
205 Ocean Avenue Studios
Portland, Maine
Photo Credit: Raquel P Miller
September 4 - October 25, 2026
205 Ocean Avenue Studios
Portland, Maine
Photo Credit: Raquel P Miller
September 4 - October 25, 2026
205 Ocean Avenue Studios
Portland, Maine
Photo Credit: Raquel P Miller
September 4 - October 25, 2026
205 Ocean Avenue Studios
Portland, Maine
Photo Credit: Raquel P Miller
September 4 - October 25, 2026
205 Ocean Avenue Studios
Portland, Maine
Photo Credit: Raquel P Miller
September 4 - October 25, 2026
205 Ocean Avenue Studios
Portland, Maine
Photo Credit: Raquel P Miller
September 4 - October 25, 2026
205 Ocean Avenue Studios
Portland, Maine
Photo Credit: Raquel P Miller
September 4 - October 25, 2026
205 Ocean Avenue Studios
Portland, Maine
Photo Credit: Raquel P Miller
September 4 - October 25, 2026
205 Ocean Avenue Studios
Portland, Maine
Photo Credit: Raquel P Miller
September 4 - October 25, 2026
205 Ocean Avenue Studios
Portland, Maine
Photo Credit: Raquel P Miller
September 4 - October 25, 2026
205 Ocean Avenue Studios
Portland, Maine
Photo Credit: Raquel P Miller
September 4 - October 25, 2026
205 Ocean Avenue Studios
Portland, Maine
Photo Credit: Raquel P Miller
September 4 - October 25, 2026
205 Ocean Avenue Studios
Portland, Maine
Photo Credit: Raquel P Miller
September 4 - October 25, 2026
205 Ocean Avenue Studios
Portland, Maine
Photo Credit: Raquel P Miller
September 4 - October 25, 2026
205 Ocean Avenue Studios
Portland, Maine
Photo Credit: Raquel P Miller
September 4 - October 25, 2026
205 Ocean Avenue Studios
Portland, Maine
Photo Credit: Raquel P Miller
September 4 - October 25, 2026
205 Ocean Avenue Studios
Portland, Maine
Photo Credit: Raquel P Miller
September 4 - October 25, 2026
205 Ocean Avenue Studios
Portland, Maine
Photo Credit: Raquel P Miller
September 4 - October 25, 2026
205 Ocean Avenue Studios
Portland, Maine
Photo Credit: Raquel P Miller
September 4 - October 25, 2026
205 Ocean Avenue Studios
Portland, Maine
Photo Credit: Raquel P Miller
September 4 - October 25, 2026
205 Ocean Avenue Studios
Portland, Maine
Photo Credit: Raquel P Miller
September 4 - October 25, 2026
205 Ocean Avenue Studios
Portland, Maine
Photo Credit: Raquel P Miller
September 4 - October 25, 2026
205 Ocean Avenue Studios
Portland, Maine
Photo Credit: Raquel P Miller