A Broomfield-based artist is showcasing her unique muse in a display at the city and county building.

Camie Rigirozzi has lived in Broomfield for eight years but said she’s been making art for much longer. After stepping away from creative endeavors for a few years, she said she got back into her art about 15 years ago.

“(I went back to art) because I was just trying to reconnect with parts of myself,” Rigirozzi said. “I find through making art, I can make sense of what I’m feeling. It’s not always obvious to me — I’ll know that I’m feeling something but can’t quite figure it out — and it’s super helpful to sit down in front of something I can make a mess of.”

At the George Di Ciero City and County Building, 1 Descombes Drive, a small show of Rigirozzi’s work is displayed in the main lobby. The section of the lobby is used by the Broomfield Art Guild for a series of rotating exhibitions, and Rigirozzi’s creations will be hanging in the city and county building until the end of August.

Rigirozzi’s exhibition depicts her unique choice of muse that finds its way into much of her art — bulls.

“My first big solo show was a series of animals and what those animals represented within myself,” Rigirozzi said. With her maiden name being Bull, she said she was called to represent the animals in her show.

“I started creating this one image of a bull that actually kind of scared me.”

The bull in question, “The Bull When You Break,” is a mixed media piece that depicts a bull angrily charging toward the viewer, surrounded by charcoal markings and paper clippings.

“The bull represents that sense we have within ourselves that we all have a great capability to hurt each other,” Rigirozzi said.

“You feel that anger inside of you, that potential energy, and there’s that sense that you could inflict a lot of harm on somebody.”

Rigirozzi said that to rein in the energy of the bull, she finds it helpful to let loose some of that potential energy through things like boxing or yoga and give the bull a chance to “go out to pasture.”

“I know that if I ‘go out to pasture,’ I can buck and kick and I’m not going to hurt anybody,” she said. “There are times when you just need to let it out to feel better.”

Rigirozzi said her first depiction of a bull included charcoal markings that, while not in any language, were still written with the intention of communicating an important message to the bull.

“They’re just marks that your inner self kind of makes, and the message I remember writing said ‘you can’t hurt me,’” she said. “It was my way of telling that bull that I might be afraid of that energy, but I know it can’t hurt me.”