Sovereignity

In the 'freedance' paintings I simply work with whatever comes up as I paint. This is a way to connect with what it is I would really like to express, but also to let go of all that has become obligation and where I am loosing the excitement and joy with my work. I use different mediums, projected images, paint over old images or just drift with my brush across an empty canvass.
This week some womb like images came up. It left me contemplating babies as they are forming in the womb. This too is a kind of growth that happens in silence. I could see how each baby I looked at already had a unique essence even just after birth. It is as if an embryo is a type of seed.

To become Sovereign within ourselves we have to surrender back into this silent seed essence and grow into the tree we are. We need strong roots, a thick trunk and we have a wonderful head of flexible branches and whispering leaves in the sky. So we each have to become a tree that can stand alone and simply be.

I encountered this queen just before spring in the Luxembourg Gardens, Paris. She was silent and static amid the branches, quietly bursting with newly formed buds.
All these works in the picture are still in progress.