Science, Spirit, Art | Watercolor

Breath

Breathe, Breath, Ruach

11×14, Watercolor on Aquaboard

2024

Without breath, we are not. For those who have experienced trauma, breath itself becomes terrifying. Breathing causes us to expand or contract, reaching out into space for connection or withdrawing in self protection. This is the space where we are seen and experienced at our most elemental and most vulnerable. Though breath is filled with life and strength, it exists as a tenuous and fragile thread to being. Like everything in the Kingdom of God, the Ruach invites us to embrace the paradox of being both limitless yet finite, strong yet fragile, autonomous but connected.

Light Fall

5×5, Watercolor on Aquaboard

2024

Using a heart rate variability monitor, I collected a heart reading which I translated into the horizon line. This abstracted landscape explores chronic pain and chronic illness with melting lines that intertwine and slide in the passing of a day.

Fire and Cloud

5×5, Watercolor on Aquaboard

2024

Using vertical and horizontal lines this piece explores the connection between nature, humankind, and the Divine. Fire and cloud permeate land and sky, piercing and resting on an arid landscape.