"A New Beginning Among Countless", Nov '22

November 9, 2022. Acrylic.

I captioned this painting on instagram where I originally published it, "Happy full Lunar Eclipse in Taurus!" How timely, as I am writing this during a lunar eclipse in Libra.

All my work is intuitive to an extent. This one came about simply from playing with mixing paints and observing the shapes and combinations my brush left as I dragged it down the canvas. It eventually ended up looking like water so I painted tadpoles to represent two souls. I am agreeable to the opinion I have heard before that those tadpoles look like sperm and between that and the water imagery, the piece is overall a fertile one. The souls are intended to be a connected pair meeting up before their reincarnation cycles together. Little is more fertile than that.

5 days after publishing the original social media post, I sat my ex-husband down and ended my marriage. That lunar eclipse in Taurus marked my divorce. This lunar eclipse in Libra marks the recent decision to now wholeheartedly pursue a life that is starkly different than the one the marriage prevented me from having. One that is more creative, expansive, spiritual. One that is far more me.