The Integration of One Drawing

There is profound healing in art and healing requires pain. For an artist, acknowledgement, acceptance and a willingness to work with pain are a part of the healing the work gifts us. This piece has been a study of pain and healing in so many facets. It represents an integration of all parts of the Self and the journey of healing embracing that Self has required. I intended to reflect a path of emotional and spiritual loss and recovery but physical pain wove its way in, the full gamut of pain was uncovered in this work. It was a challenging piece in that both mind & body played a role. One confronted the other, one required something of the other, one integrated with the other to create a whole. Pain is wildish. It pushes us, it forces us to see what lives in the darkest parts of ourselves. It asks us to go there and explore what hides in places we put everything we are into avoiding. We collect and we repress pain and in that process we diminish aspects of our experience. This work represents pain and all its counterparts. It honors the growth it offers us and the pieces that rise from the graceful process of healing and repair. This work is hand-drawn and wood burned on pine.

Drawing:Wood on Wood

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:24 W x 24 H x 0.5 D in

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