Shallows & Depths

This painting is 24X18 roughly since I don’t have a measuring tape. It’s acrylic, some ink and those shells are actual seashells. Due to those shells I may not do a print or if I do, it will be prior to those being installed. So for now, I am selling just the original work.

It’s called Shallows & Depths. We all have light conscious self and shadow unconscious self. That shadow side is what the brain learned to protect us from various upsetting experiences when we were younger. It is always their with its negative self-talk and changing what decisions we make or what we think we can do. It of itself isn’t negative since it literally is there to protect us from ever experiencing those things again so it gives us some limiting beliefs and ideas about ourselves to do this. And as adults we have to really become aware of it and how it affects us so we can learn which parts do empower us and help us and which disempower us and hinder us.

The conscious side it actually a small fraction of what goes on us. A drop in the ocean. We think it is the ocean but the ocean is our unconscious mind and subconscious reality. And the magority of our brain it designed for quick reasoning and automatic behaviors. From it we develop some pretty automatic behaviours and habits. But the conscious mind does have the power to re-write that story. If we look into the depths of that ocean and see at least a part of what is going on.