Anatomy Awake

The human body: we see the out­side — the color of our eyes, our hair, arms and legs, our weight, our shape (are you an apple or a pear?), the pig­ment and tex­ture of our skin. But the inside, now there’s a mystery!

In August of 1999, I began train­ing to become a reg­is­tered nurse. I stud­ied human anatomy and phys­i­ol­ogy. This opened a whole new world where I saw what lies under the skin and I began to get a glim­mer at how we are put together and how we function.

With a back­ground in Qabalah and Anthro­pos­o­phy, I see the body through lenses of spir­i­tu­al­ity liv­ing in the world. But how do I com­mu­ni­cate this rev­e­la­tion of human’s lit­er­ally being made in the image of God? PAINTING! I’ve been paint­ing since 1995 and lost inter­est in many of the com­mon sub­jects such as, land­scapes, still life, etc, but anatomy really cap­ti­vated me. Why not paint anatomy? Artists have stud­ied human struc­ture and form through­out his­tory includ­ing, Leonardo DaVinci who exhumed corpses of the recently deceased.

In addi­tion to study­ing West­ern spir­i­tual tra­di­tions, I have also stud­ied [con­tinue reading…]