"RENEWAL."  It was chaotic in painting style and wild in gestures, but I accepted it as an outburst - and put it away. After a few days I took it on and created ORDER, FORM and COHERENCE. You can detect a few layers here - the process I needed to go through for this image to emerge. This is how the series was born and this is the beauty of Renewal. It was the very first of the series that I recognized as the theme that was emerging.

 
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This one started before Christmas 2016 and ended in January 2017 - a portrait of my wish to see beauty around me, without judgement and inside beauty in constant rising and refinement.

 
 

One of my favorites, I just wondered how this figure emerged and I used my left hand with crayons to do the markings. I was in awe at the forms.... and the layers of pastel, oil sticks, colored pencils. Everything that was going on in my life is represented here. And I found form and structure in my life. I started to see the mirroring here.