My latest collection, Metabolize, embodies Pema Chödrön's teaching through drawing, painting, and meditation practice.

Four pieces trace how desire moves through us when we stop struggling against its nature:

Arising, Pursuit, Fulfillment, Dissolution.

In Arising, brushstrokes gather like possibilities condensing from space.
No struggle here, just the natural emergence of form from formlessness.

The marks themselves demonstrate harmony:
Not forced into being, but allowed to emerge.

Pursuit flows with the natural momentum of desire.
Blues blend without resistance,
each gesture extending organically toward what calls it.

This is what wanting looks like when we stop fighting:
Fluid, dynamic, already perfect in its incompletion.

Fulfillment offers the moment of contact without grasping.
Colors warm and expand naturally,
boundaries dissolve not through force but through flow.

Here we see what Pema Chödrön points toward:
Completion is just another form of impermanence, nothing to cling to.

Finally, Dissolution shows what grace looks like.
The apple returns to earth not as tragedy but as harmony.

This is impermanence made visible:
Not loss, but transformation, continuing its eternal dance.

Together, these pieces don't just depict change;
They demonstrate what happens when we stop struggling against it.

Each artwork is impermanence in action,
showing us that harmony was always available,
waiting for us to stop fighting reality.

They become teachers of this core principle:

We don't need to change impermanence.
We need to change our relationship to it.

When we do, we find ourselves in harmony with the deepest truth of existence.