meet the artist

As an artist, musician, fitness enthusiast, yogi, mental health professional, friend, and lover, self-care, regimentation, expressive flow, and subtle intimacy are the essential building blocks to my life’s work and the sustained feeling of satisfaction I find in all my days. This satisfaction feeds a persistent desire for mastery.

True mastery inevitably leads to greater insight, to a deeper connectivity, and to an unwavering familiarity with oneself that creates a secure footing for a life continuously and safely under construction. Furthermore, mastery is not an endpoint, but as a continuous fine-tuning of the self byway of established and reliable channels, all of which flow toward an ever-increasing sense of collected self. These qualities are nurtured by activities that I often and quite unintentionally visited throughout my young adulthood as a refuge from the vast uncertainty and relative chaos of that time. But I would be remiss if I failed to acknowledge some of the privileges of my upbringing (though modest and adverse at times), and the multitude of opportunities for exposure to a world outside of my small, and rather backward hometown. Whether or not it was intentional, my parents showed me the beauties of nature and music, and to some degree art, which laid a solid foundation for my appreciation of many sublime aspects of life and for living. I had some sense of what it was to be loved and to be cherished, and I had the great fortune of access to some pretty fantastic educators who saw the seeds in me and did everything in their power to nurture them to flourish as widely as they could given the circumstances.

As I progressed into my 30’s and began to appreciate that these activities were not only enjoyable past-times, but fundamental building blocks to my more fully-realized self. I sought out these activities with an increasing mindfulness. I felt a growing desire to treat them as intimate and very personal processes that required a continuous and concerted investment in them. Not only have I nurtured these qualities as a path toward mastery, but also as an acknowledgement of their inevitable role in forward momentum until the very end of my days. Many of the activities straddle multiple realms as they entail more complex physical and emotional  processes requiring a great deal of personal motivation and more importantly, practiced patience. Patience plays a pivotal role given the time invested in any one activity versus the ultimate ‘payoff’ and/or perception of accomplishment, which is way too often mistaken for an end point.

These mandalas are but a path toward enlightenment where the boundless potentiality of space, coupled by my own ability to fill and nurture it wisely, culminate in the fleur de mon âme that flourish before you. What an honor and joy it is to be able to bring to fruition the balanced beauty buried in my eager heart.