Return to the Inner Cave, 2023

9" x 12" Watercolor on Paper; unframed.

Return to the Inner Cave depicts a living, arboreal face whose mouth opens into darkness, as though the landscape itself were exhaling memory, myth, or origin. The figure evokes an ancestral threshold—a place where consciousness retreats inward rather than advancing outward—suggesting that true revelation requires descent rather than conquest. The roots and branches radiating from the head imply thought, lineage, and time entwined, while the pale stream emerging from the mouth reads as both breath and offering. This is a painting about returning to the source of self, where nature, mind, and myth collapse into a single interior space.

Painted during live stream; November 28, 2023.