Living ENLIGHTENMENT I

Living ENLIGHTENMENT | Mixed Media on canvas, 24×24, 2026
There’s a book on my shelf , Living Enlightenment by Paramahamsa Nithyananda, and my process begins there. I open it to any page. Whatever prompt I land on becomes the doorway.
Then I step through.
What happens next is not entirely mine to control, and that’s exactly the point. The work shifts as it moves. It speaks back to me. There’s a tension in not knowing what’s coming through , exciting and a little anxious , and the relief only arrives when I do one thing: surrender.
Surrender the question am I good enough?
Surrender will people understand?
Surrender am I too weird?
The truth I keep returning to is simple. I am what I am. I express the best I can. And the only energy that can rescue this work refuses to show up when I’m performing. It comes when I’m humble, curious, filled up by the immense happenings in my own, or what I witness in others. Only then does something real flow through.
This one began with chaos , a wild, layered background, spray paint included. Then came the line. And within the line, things revealed themselves. A face. A hand. A ring. And a bird, she showed up on her own, as birds often do in my work. So do fish, in other pieces. I don’t summon them. They arrive.
Living ENLIGHTENMENT will be shown at the NAWA Annual Exhibition in June in New York.
If she speaks to you, if you feel her , please message me. She is looking for a new home.