July, 2019.

One of my most personal pieces, stemmed from the act of surrendering to vulnerability - and finding the calm within it.

This self portrait, taken in a tidal pool at sunset just before the heavens unleashed rain and lightning, was created to channel my current feelings at the time into art... summed up by the following poem I wrote later that evening:

"In the air, a heaviness yet not so heavy as the weight of emptiness In the clouds, a foreboding though not so ominous as the hollow unknowing In the water, only reflections the deeper she seeks the darker the deceptions A breath drawn in, disclosing defeat a slower breath out a sigh in relief A stillness now, a silent trade loneliness for lonesomeness the acceptance made And thunder distant, a parallel song a temporary balance and a wish to prolong For here within, steady it grows a quiet so fierce in the fervor she knows Her heart, hear now: the beat ever slowing the calm before the storm a break in overflowing."