Finding your center. I painted a perfect lotus on this piece only to have it break up when I decided to do a shellac burn. So I repeated the perfect lotus burn tore it apart again with another burn. I did this again and again. Isn't that what enlightenment is all about really. Self awareness. Learning from going through. It's what life is about. Life breaks us and we work hard to find our center, to find peace and happiness again. Only to repeat the process the next time something in life causes us to break. Break apart means we break open and then we grow. This lotus is wanting the world to know that even though it has changed its shape many times, it's still a lotus. No matter what we go through in life we are able to find peace.

8 x 8 x 2 inch encaustic on wood canvas.