Reckoning with the Unconscious #11

Watercolor on 9" x 12" coldpress paperOriginal (one-of-a-kind) There are cycles longer than any single life. The ancient Maya did not simply observe time. They mapped it, honored it, built their entire civilization around its rhythms. Chichén Itzá was not merely a site of worship. It was a clock, an observatory, a living record of return. What comes around is not the past itself, but the opportunity to meet it differently. This painting stands inside that understanding. Strength here is not imposed. It is earned through endurance, etched into the body, expressed through presence and voice. The Maya understood power this way too, not as domination but as alignment with forces larger than any single reign or ruler. To bear witness is its own form of power. This painting holds the tension between what tries to silence and what insists on remaining visible, between structure and spirit, between collapse and continuation. Dignity is not granted. It is carried. And what has been survived b