❤️‍🔥 34 ❤️‍🔥

Last week I turned 34. That same day, I also finished this giant intuitive oil pastel piece I’ve been working on for the first 10 days of July.

It was a totally intuitive, emergent piece- as most of my art is these days.

It reminded me of having a puzzle around. I’d go over and spend a little time working on a new layer, a new section. Then I’d bee bop around to something else until the painting called me back again for the next layer.

This was the most “high stakes” piece I’ve gone fully intuitive on.

It was so interesting to watch the initial preciousness and hesitation give way to delight, aliveness, and a sense of falling more deeply in love with my own heart, spirit, and self-expression with each new intuitive layer - each new risk taken to trust myself and trust the process.

It felt so right to finish it today and bring it in to my birthday self portraits.

I feel so grateful for where my life path has led me.

For the many, many heart- and soul- aligned intuitive risks 33 year old me took, and where those risks have taken me in relationship with myself, with life, with loved ones.

For the juicy depths of belonging, trust, creativity, perspective, faith, and a commitment to a different kind of quality of life - a life with room for the fullness of ME, as a multidimensional, sensitive, messy human being - that these risks have allowed me to bask in and be nourished by.

Each year of life I learn so much more about what’s possible in relationship with myself, with loved ones, with my community, with my art, with the interconnected web of all things.

Each year I learn and experience so much more about the nature of love, grace, creativity, and courage.

What a gift, what a gift!

Thank you for being here, for witnessing me in what I share of myself on the good old World Wide Web.

I am so grateful to be alive, to be here, to be forever growing in my capacity to honor the fullness of myself and the fullness of the people + beings around me at the same time, and to get to experience all the delicious flavors of connection that allows.

Thank you 33. Here’s to a new year of exploration and adventure ❤️‍🔥

Swipe through below to see process photos!