From a series of life-sized charcoal renderings of the female and male form in yoga asana, these artworks sprang forth my final semester in art school after years of struggling to accept my creative gift, seeding an inquiry that has been unfolding ever since:

Hatha Yoga was the first modality I stumbled upon that helped me begin to dial down the intensity of self-hatred, and actually get to sleep at night.

What was it about this practice that was proving to be so physically, psychologically, and spiritually impactful?

How could I take the felt sense of what I was experiencing on the mat, and bring it into the rest of my life, and the world?

Two years into a dedicated yoga practice, creating art about it seemed like the most natural way to further cultivate, meditate upon, and embody the very questions I was curious to live into.

The Bringing to Light series marked the beginning of artmaking shifting out of the shame, turmoil, and self-harm it elicited during art school, to returning to its core essence as a therapeutic healing practice- as yoga, or union- with psyche, Soul, and the Source of life itself.

"Bringing to Light"

4'x6' Charcoal on Arches

2007