It All Starts When... >> This fell into place. The words flowed onto those pages without any effort...just a load of love. Then...now...years later, they fed this beauty in the same way. Every piece that plays into the whole took shape the way it wanted. Showing me how to bring it to life when I had no clue what to do, more than a few times. Like when with a spontaneous swipe...what was hanging broke free from the darkness. Forming into a letter. With that, one that was hidden within showed itself. Rising to the surface to couple with what was formed when the break happened. Two becoming one. Together carrying the first part of this story forward...stopping the fall...making it fly. Right into the middle of it all.
All the pain got ripped out and laid down in the middle. Transformed into something else entirely. Beauty coming through with every curve taken. That’s not all tho. The truth in the beauty of every experience had with one was carefully curled over top. Not to hide the pain. To show what remains...what’ll always win...Love.
And with that...
It All Starts When... >> Whenever we want. We have more than one beginning. And there’s no end to this story. That’s what that O says.
...coming off the last piece, I wanted to make one that spoke to a fresh start...a blank page...a new story. So I started with that. Painted white lines in the upper left to show a story yet to be written. Then I let go...and the rest came. I like how it looks like a new day. When placed next to the last piece it’s the dawn after a dark night. Oh and that colon is two open circles for a reason. Cause there’s always a reason for everything.
Lost Souls >>...headin’ home.
24”x30” Acrylic on Canvas. Contact for pricing.
Long Lost Souls >> unstuck...after being in the darkest spot for the longest time.
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Goin’ in I asked for the piece on the left to be a match for the one on the right. Made >> LLL a couple years back...then put it on a shelf that it fell off of...got jabbed and torn through the center...didn’t know how to fix it but loved it so much that I couldn’t get rid of it...so I left it sitting in a corner. Saw how to fix it last week! Cuz everything can always be fixed. And improved. Now it’s got wheels!! Showin’ how fast things move when love leads. Oh and ‘Rising’ used to be ‘When Love Said This Way’...but I never really liked it cause I really don’t like telling anyone what to do. So I painted over that. And the new way it led, on its own for itself, was straight up out of that darkness...so there you go...Rises & Lets Love Lead...together.
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Almost called this one Changing Lanes. But What If…? spoke to the same in a deeper way.
That feeling of What if...? that pops up before you choose, change, or merge a direction in life. Maybe even go back on a direction you took. Cause you can always go back to move forward in a way you couldn’t before. When it’s time to do that, whatever time that is, I hope you land on the same What If...? that led this piece the whole way through. The question that led from the start.
What if...? What if I do this? What if I do that? What if I use this? What if I try that? What if…? What if…? What if…?
At one point, I did think...what if I fuck it all up?But then countered that with...what if it turns out better than I could have ever even imagined? With that, this came. Something totally new and different. Something I love.
And something cool about this piece...it works in every direction it’s turned. Tbf, after sitting with one for a bit, takes a min to acclimate to the next. But once you let go of what you got used to, to look with fresh eyes at what’s in front of you, it looks like it was always meant to go that way. Oh and with every turn? Different details pop to give that one specific way it’s own special meaning. So in its way, each way is right.
What I really like about this piece is how it says anyone can choose which way (or ways) they prefer. There’s no one way and there’s no wrong way.
36”x30” Acrylic on Canvas. Contact for pricing.
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The Path to Victory >> isn’t always clear. For sure isn’t a straight line. And def isn’t always easy. To reach it, whatever it is you’re reaching for, you gotta commit. Then you keep re-committing to it...over and again. You do it for you. That’s the trick. Do whatever it is you’re doing for the joy it brings you to do it. Not for the external victory that’s coming. It’s the only way to not lose hope and give up along the way. Because it’s a long road, so people will give up on you. But you can’t. Ever.
It’s not all hard times tho. You do get a whole lot of little victories along the way. Before the big one comes. Then when it does, everything that happened along the way, that steered you one way then another, all comes together, and it all makes perfect sense.
The Wise Woman >> listens to the whispers of the Soul. Then moves forward with them in the direction guided to go.
48”x48” Acrylic on Canvas. Contact for pricing.
The Wisest Ones >> Started off going in a totally different direction. Then the lanes that had formed were cleared as the need to break free rose. To grow. Throw out the map. And lead with the heart. Into the unknown.
Where anything could happen.
Despite the fear. Understanding that while it may terrify, the heart knows where you need to go.
Trusting in that.
And with that, fear is overtaken by courage. Courage that comes from hope. Hope for what happens in the unknown. That place where new experiences form. Experiences that only exist beyond the old lanes.
That’s where the flowers come in.
First, driven by a desire to give them. Having quietly carried the beauty of them within for a long while. Then, moving forward on a bed of them, realizing you deserve to receive what’s beautiful too.
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Having already created The Wise Woman, this started out as her companion - The Wise Man - but then that felt limiting. The man who knows this is him is confident enough to throw out the labels. Having no need to shout he’s a man, he wants everyone who feels the same way to feel...to know that they are included.
The Path to Happiness • Started off super light. ➡️ Then got foggy and dark. But I loved loved loved how the rings from that beacon waved down from up high, all the way over on the right. Calling the ball to roll forward. Only, I love/hated that ax hanging above it. Swinging down to chip away at what had to go. But I knew it was all for love. So I let it be. For a long while. Loved what it did more than I didn’t. Then one day, I was over it. Didn’t want it there anymore. So I went in to change what was no longer a fit. Was gonna leave everything else alone. ➡️ But then everything changed.
Those flowers tho. Those make me melt every time. To really see them...watch the reel and...
Was feeling depleted, so I picked up a brush, opened myself up, and asked for whatever I needed to see to come through.
This is what I saw. And this is what I felt. On all the moons that can be seen here. Even tho I don’t do new or full moon rituals, I believe in the power of intention, and I’ve been doing that, just like we all have, setting intentions and blasting rockets of desire, naturally and organically, as every moon comes and goes. If you’ve ever listened to Abe Hicks you know what I mean.
How everyone has a vibrational vortex, with all they’ve ever desired in it, constantly evolving and increasing, all created during the contrast of the life one’s experienced. Just waiting to be aligned and tapped into.
This came through to show how much is going on out there. How much is growing and evolving. How much is happening that can’t be seen. How much is coming.
Next up, out of the vortex and into...
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The Empress | Winter ‘22 >> After I finished this, thought for a sec, ohhh maybe it should have said patience, instead of abundance. Since this is Winter. And I felt patience come through in the first layer, the foundation.
But those flowers came in and took over.
There was only supposed to be a few big ones, curved into a crown. But they came like this, and they just kept coming.
So I went with it, with them. And they felt soooooo abundant, so I wrote that.
And they fit with Winter. I see them as still curled in, with just a hint of an opening, saying they’re almost ready to bloom...just not quite yet.
This one’s simple. The Emperor. Knows what he wants. Love & Liberty.
The freedom to love. A love that’s free. One that’s true, and is truly unconditional. Given and received. Freely.
When love is like that? The crown it comes with is never heavy.
Light as a feather, it floats high but won’t flit away. It’s tethered. To the one it belongs to. The Emperor.
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