"Creative Transformations"

Original acrylic on canvas:    36" x 48"

Symbolism: All transformation takes place through our internal landscape (domain) and is projected out onto the environment. Our model of the "World" is created by our internal experiences, shaped primarily by identity, beliefs, emotions, preferences, how we form representations. Our evolution unfolds like the petals on a flower, exposing the nectar rich center of our "Being." Hope and the promise of the future is symbolized by the rainbow which forms a bridge between Heaven and Earth, energy & matter, the mental and physical realms. There are 13 butterflies, representing transformation and the process of becoming. !3 also represents the Mastery - master your life, by mastering your own mind and your ability to cultivate internal experience as a way of manifesting external circumstances. All Mastery is "Self-Mastery." All experience is self creation through expression. The Sun rising - our true essence as seen by the world - casts our light on the environment forming our personal perception that is given shape and meaning that expresses itself in a "like" nature through our models and paradigms. The celestial realms appear to be flowing - it is through entering the flow of life that we blossom and self-actualize by expressing our internal sense of self - establishing it as real.