Guarded Heart/Open Heart

This series offers an invitation to the viewer to consider opening one’s heart, despite experiences and conditioning we have all encountered which otherwise might prompt us to move through life with a guarded heart.  

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Is the first painting a nurturing hug, a guarded block or, perhaps, a straitjacket? Sometimes we feel warm and loving; sometimes we need physical and psychological space, sometimes we are bound by our unmetabolized inner limitations. This series illustrates the presence and absence of many such states within us and offers a reminder to consider: how do we want to be in our relationships? Can we be open-hearted? And to what degree?