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.
In the collection of Elizabeth Pugh.