The Way

This painting 'The Way' told me a story after finishing it. The story is of a woman who was shattered and unwhole in her life. As she got older and walked into her sadness, doubt, uncertainty, fear and many more unpleasant states - she found her true self and realized that she had been buying into the collective pain that women have gone through and are still going through in the world.

Through this she became whole, leaving the pieces and fragments from her past behind as you can see in the center image of the woman being solid moving away from the pieces around her. As she did this, she caught the attention of women everywhere who are young and haven't yet found the way that this woman found. But somehow her wholeness made clear to them of their identification with being unfragmented and torn inside - literally seen in their 'holes' within regardless of their youth and beauty.

So this painting showed me how all you need is one person to change the world - just one person to evoke the curiousity in others. The top of the painting shows a spiral and that spiral to me was a view from above of the procession coming in from all walks of life to realize their greatness and come home to themselves. The truth is, that truth just always rings true.

Realization: I know that no matter what I do in my life, if it comes from the heart it will always lead me to the best possible path.

"The best way out is always through"

-Robert Frost