I’m the one spinning my own tale. Or, am I?

Earthy sensuality and bullish reliability is something to ponder instead of underestimate. I spring into understanding…

Artwork celebrating The Ram, in warm colors and a lick of eggplant. Courageous, adventurous, and dynamic!

Probably even more than traditional meditation (which I also did quite a lot of at the time), painting this way, or zenskinning, got me into a state of mind where problems would find their own solutions almost magically. I learned more about the psychology later, but this first painting, “Svadhishthana,” also known as the Sacral Chakra, pulled me back from the brink and changed my life.

When I first started this series of paintings, which I now call zenskins, I didn’t realize that the meditative art making act itself was enough. I felt the need to attach it to something more established in terms of meditation, and I had been practicing Kundalini Yoga for a while. I loved, and still love, this branch of yoga and the emphasis on our chakras. So, my first 7 zenskins were about the 7 major chakras, and it was a helpful place to focus and begin. I published the following post on another blog, and it’s interesting for me to read it a few years later. Notice, I don’t even mention the act of actually painting the artwork!