Embodied Earth

Abstract human torso in an ombre chakra chroma embodies earth. When turned end to end, reveals the landscape, within This Side of the Sun, and Other Side of the Moon. Ribs form ridgeline trees, arms float between earth and sky at each horizon. Chakra colors above and below the heart (cool and warm) connect the body earth and spirit.

OIl paint with palette knife, willow charcoal, oil paint stick on gallery wrap canvas

40" x 60", each canvas 40" x 30" shown as torso

30" x 80" as landscape

I painted this landscape, initially horizontal as a landscape. In process, I turned the canvases on end. Feeling myself, my body, my spine along the divide between the two vertical canvases, I completed the painting embodied. Trauma causes us to leave our bodies. After the attack in my studio 35 years ago, this painting brought me home.