Recent Paintings
When I had the vision last summer, I am not sure I realized how truly profound, perspective-shifting, and inspiring it would be. I was sitting, doing one mala of the Ganesh mantra, when I suddenly was transported and saw all around me a forest of flourishing that my body, my elephant body, had created. It was an inter-connected polyphonous symphony of thriving life, ecosystems layered and woven together, mutually encouraging every life to live their fullest and best lives. All I was doing was living my life, doing what I loved, fulfilling my needs, and moving through the world. My needs and my joys were intrinsically reciprocal and I was effortlessly involved in the most beautiful harmonious exchanges by simply being alive.
This is how to live, I thought. This is how I will seek to live and think and inhabit the world from this moment on was my vow. This is the painting that came from that vision.