Metabolize
A Visual Study on Impermanence
Limited Edition Fine Art Prints + Custom Guided Meditations by Rachel Weissman
This series explores impermanence through the lifecycle of desire.
How it changes. How we change.
What remains.
In this collection, Rachel Weissman traces the lifecycle of phenomena through the lens of desire: what arises, what transforms, and what passes away. Each work captures a moment in the endless cycle of becoming and dissolution, where nothing remains fixed and everything is already turning into something else.
Metabolize is, at its heart, about the constant transformation inherent in all experience. Like the body that breaks down and rebuilds itself cell by cell, like the earth that composts fallen leaves into fertile soil, our desires, memories, and very selves are in perpetual flux. Each viewer brings their own attachments, their own lessons in letting go.
The original works, created in acrylic, charcoal, and soft pastels, have been translated into limited-edition prints, each preserving the distinct material qualities of their source: the urgency of brushstroke, the rawness of charcoal, the dissolution of blended pigments.
Each limited-edition print is produced with archival inks on Hahnemühle Etching paper, chosen for its exceptional depth, texture, and longevity. They honor the material sensitivity of the original works, inviting the viewer into an intimate encounter with form, surface, and stillness. Each piece comes with its own guided meditation created by the artist, four distinct practices for engaging directly with impermanence.
Metabolize is not meant to be passively viewed but intentionally engaged. Sit with each piece in soft focus, allowing your gaze to rest and your breath to slow. Notice how forms emerge and dissolve, how color and texture shift as you linger. Let the work reveal itself as a mirror for your own constant transformation.
This is an invitation to witness the nature of all phenomena: how everything arises, abides briefly, and ceases. As you rest with the artwork, you may begin to sense the deeper teaching moving through it. The precious impermanent nature of our reality.
Each meditation that accompanies the series offers a space to meet impermanence through direct experience. Through stillness, compassion, and open awareness, you are invited to witness your own becoming, to recognize that change is not something that happens to you but something you are.
An Invitation to Experience
Metabolize Limited Edition Fine Art Prints are available for purchase here for customers within the United States. If you live outside the U.S. and would like to order a print, please reach out through our Contact page. We’ll gladly provide a custom quote that includes international shipping.
Orders placed by November 30th will be carefully prepared and shipped by December 3rd. You’ll receive an email that day confirming your order has shipped and providing access to the digital guided meditation file.
All purchases are final sale.
The first pulse of longing. A spark, a stirring, the recognition of something just beyond reach. Arising captures the electric moment when desire takes form, pure potential, unrefined and alive. Brushstrokes move like impulses, converging yet unfinished, echoing the vitality of becoming.
Desire in motion. Energy extends outward, chasing the shimmer of fulfillment. Pursuit moves with rhythm and fluidity, each mark a gesture toward what is imagined, what could be. The blues blur into one another, mirroring the beautiful ache of longing that has not yet found its rest.
Saturation. The merging of seeker and sought. In Fulfillment, the boundaries dissolve as color warms and swells, evoking the fullness of contact and the sweetness of momentary completion. Beneath the surface hums the quiet truth that every culmination already contains its undoing.
What remains when desire burns through. Dissolution confronts the aftermath, the raw and tender core revealed when the outer form collapses. The apple’s decay becomes a meditation on impermanence, on how endings nourish beginnings. What was once consumed now feeds the soil of becoming.
Metabolize traces the transformation of desire through four stages: Arising, Pursuit, Fulfillment, and Dissolution. Each piece reveals a moment in the continuous cycle of longing and release, from the first spark of wanting to the quiet clarity that follows its fading. Together, they reflect the natural rhythm of becoming and letting go, reminding us that all things change form but nothing is ever truly lost.
About the Artist
Rachel Weissman is an academically trained and practicing visual artist who received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her education in drawing, painting, and design provided a strong foundation in form, color, and composition, while her ongoing practice explores the more subtle terrain of awareness, perception, and presence.
Rachel is also a certified meditation teacher. Her spiritual foundation draws on Advaita Vedanta, Hindu Tantra, and Tibetan Buddhism, and is further informed by contemporary psychological, somatic, and integral developmental approaches. These influences converge in a practice that seeks not only to depict but to embody the experience of consciousness itself.
Through her work, she invites viewers into a state of visual meditation. Each painting becomes a moment of inquiry into the nature of seeing and being seen, where gesture and stillness meet. Her process is rooted in observation yet guided by intuition, allowing form to emerge naturally without force or fixed intent.
Her intention is that each piece serve as an opening, an opportunity to slow down and allow art to illuminate the ineffable. In this way, her paintings become contemplative spaces where awareness deepens, consciousness expands, and the boundary between viewer and viewed begins to soften.
Rachel welcomes a small number of direct commissions and patron relationships each year. These collaborations support the creation of new contemplative works and deepen the dialogue between artist and collector. Each patronage unfolds uniquely, guided by shared inquiry, presence, and trust. Works may be commissioned privately or developed as part of ongoing creative support. If you are interested, please reach out to her directly through the Contact page.