Strip all layers that cover and you’ll witness one in their purest and primal form.
Efface all external noise and a voice will eventually emerge from within.
Each layer shed presents a revelation. Each reverberation amplifies an echo of the past.
Coming Back To Self is a collection of paintings inspired by a letter to myself, a gentle reminder that all the answers I seek are within.
“You continue to show up, even in moments when it doesn’t seem to make sense anymore, even if that means going into your cocoon for a little while, even if that means leaving familiar faces and pathways, gradually abandoning a version of who you think you should be or where your life should lead.
You take your time to cocoon because that itself is doing the work.
You bask in silence and stillness because that’s how you tune in to yourself. You reach your arms to the sky, trying to pluck something out of the stars. You bow down to your body and listen, because that should be the most integral kind of communication that you should learn to master first, and even if the answers within you are not coming, you continue to ask because that is how you gently invite your voice that has been ignored and shut down for a long time. Yes, that is how you slowly build the trust to listen to yourself more than anyone.
Stillness
Watercolor on paper
21 x 15 "
The Call
Watercolor on paper
21 x 15 "
You stand there naked and raw –unapologetic. You pave your path with the voice within you as the navigator, and even if circumstances don’t always play as you planned, you smile and learn to embrace ambiguity because that’s just life, and you don’t have to punish yourself for it.
That is how you slowly build the connection to yourself.
Portals
Watercolor on paper
15 x 21 "
Emergence
Watercolor on paper
15 x 21 "
You pour your soul into a vision to the point of ridiculousness because finally, you have created a safe space within you. You start to trust and gently love who you are. You leave the baggage outside the door. You sweep the dust of worries and throw all the cares you could give out the window.
(I’m just over living life for everyone else.)”
Eternal Return
Watercolor on paper
15 x 21 "