Reckoning with the Unconscious #2

Watercolor on 9" x 12" coldpress paperOriginal (one-of-a-kind)Signed on frontReady to frame Some inheritances are carried not in words, but in atmosphere. The body remembers what the mind cannot name—the warmth of distant soil, the cadence of footsteps across a land we may never have touched, but still feel. This piece is a meditation on the deep interior where memory, instinct, and ancestral presence converge. Emergence isn’t always forward-facing. Sometimes it is inward, a soft but unrelenting pull toward the source. Not a return to the past, but to the root. To the wild intelligence that shaped us long before the world told us what to forget. In this portrait, the unconscious rises not as rupture, but as continuity. A tether to something ancient and intact, still breathing beneath the surface. It asks nothing but our attention—and in offering it, we find not distance, but home.