Willing - Watercolor

Title: Willing - Watercolor Artist Statement: This is an excerpt from a blog post Carly made for this painting in 2021: “INTENSE is the only word I can think of to describe the spiritual and religious journey that I've gone through since January. When I took my 6 month break from Instagram, I thought it would equal spiritual bliss. Turns out taking away social media took off a bandage hiding a nasty wound on my soul. I had had a painful encounter with someone years ago about religion where I didn’t know how to respond and it wasn’t until this January that I realized I never healed from that. My wound was infected. And the oxygen hurt. I can't quite find the right term for my spiritual journey this year. Faith crisis seems too negative and out of control. Faith transition makes me feel like I am leaving my religion, and I’m not. Faith growing pains? Maybe more like it?. I went to a Catholic mass while I was in Boston. I met the Father over the parish afterward. As I tried to explain m