One In A Million Painting

This artwork is part of a series called WHISPER. Artworks in the Whisper series were based on peoples answers and my thoughts in response to the following question - 'If you could whisper in your child's ear tonight, and they would FOREVER, believe it to be true, what would you whisper?' We are actually a one in four hundred million billion trillion. The chances of us being us, with our genetic wiring, aesthetics, character traits, from the particular sperm and egg that made us, born on the day and at the time we were born, with the stars and planets sitting where they were sitting at the moment of our birth, the odds of that happening, of us, happening - is actually one in four hundred million billion trillion. Someone did the calculation! So if we are THAT unique, that 'one-off', each of us must actually be very very, very, special. Can you imagine finding something buried deep in the ground that was beautiful and glistening, and pulsed with an aliveness you could feel? Finding something that you knew no one else had ever seen or found before. Can you imagine if this is how we viewed ourselves? Our children? Our partners? As truly unique one-off ‘finds’. We would sit in awe at who we are. We would be curious to discover more about ourselves. We would relish in our unique ‘oneoffness’ We would share us with the world, just as we are, without the need or want to change or be like those around us. I asked our 10 year old daughter what she thought would be a great thing to whisper to a child. Her answer was ‘You are amazing for who you are’. Kind of the same thing…. YOU are one in four hundred million billion trillion. Shine baby shine.