Frequently Asked Questions
1. How could you tear up all of your journals?
2. Why did you tear up all of your journals?
3. Did you make copies of your journals before you tore them up?
4. Do you still write in a journal?
5. Where did you get all of the film negatives for the Yin/Eros figure?
6. How can you let go of things? What if you need them some day?
7. Why is your work so personal?
8. Do you really love Hitler and the others in your “I Love You” series?
9. Why don’t you have limited editions of your prints?
10. Why do you sign your artwork Breathe One Love instead of with your name?
1. How could you tear up all of your journals?
I was at the end of a year-long process of clearing my living space of all that I was not currently usin
g and anything that had stagnant energy. Among the last remaining items left in my closet were three full boxes of journals. As I wondered what to do with these boxes I started reading through the journals, from 1988 to 2008.
As I finished each year I stacked the journals against the wall and marked the year off – the same way my parents tracked my height with marks on the wall as I was growing up.
Reading the journals for the first time in consecutive order allowed me to clearly see the repetitive thought patterns I was living my life by. As I looked at the stack I decided that it was time to try living a new way. I didn’t need the journals anymore. They had served their purpose.
2. Why did you tear up all of your journals?
- To allow something new to be born from what was.
- To honor and release my memory body from my physical body.
- To bring into the light of conscious awareness the past conditioning I was unknowingly living my life from.
- To create an art piece that tells the story of humanity’s search to understand—our selves, and the world we are a part of.
3. Did you make copies of your journals before you tore them up?
No, I did not make copies. As I was reading through them, I typed up bits and pieces that stood out to me, to help me see the pattern of thinking from one phase of my life to the next.
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4. Do you still write in a journal?
Yes. Writing in a journal helps me to observe and reflect, to be conscious of the way in which I am seeing and responding, speaking and acting from conditioned thought habits. To live consciously and not on automatic pilot takes awareness and practice. Journal writing is one of my living awake tools.
5. Where did you get all of the film negatives for the Yin/Eros figure?
Next to the boxes of old journals in my closet were boxes of photographs and film negatives. I wondered, what to do with these? How many years had I moved them from place to place? How many more years was I going to keep them in boxes, unlooked at and unused? Why was I keeping them? Did I need proof of my past to define myself?
I had set up a “use or lose” guideline for my space clearing. So I put the photographs in albums and started throwing away the negatives until one night I had the idea of creating a companion figure to Yang/Logos. A figure made of visual memory and moments captured in time. This became Yin/Eros.
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6. How can you let go of things? What if you need them some day?
There are many things we think we need that we do not. There is much that we hold on to that is dead weight. The more I let go of my attachments, the more clearly I can see the “fear-of-not-enough” and the “fear-of-what-will-happen” thoughts that shape my life. What are you holding on to that no longer breathes life? The answers are different for everyone.
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Why is your work so personal?
Everything we need to know is inside our selves. Breathe One Love artwork is a mirror pointing back to your self. Who are you? What makes you who you are? Where do your thoughts come from? What drives your actions? I use my self to explore the inner landscape that collectively creates our external world.
8. Do you really love Hitler and the others in your “I Love You” series?
Yes, as I love my self. With compassion, forgiveness and conscious awareness of the unconscious thought patterns that create a concept of my self as separate from you. How often do we think, speak and act oblivious to the oneness of all? Blind to the beauty of each and every life, of every single breath? What is lost because of our unconsciousness? What horror created?
The I Love You series is a visual exploration of hatred and Love. Do we know each other as friend or enemy?
When we learn to see our selves in the face of each other we know Love.
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9. Why don’t you have limited editions of your prints?
I don’t want to create the illusion of limitation for something that is technically unlimited. We play so many psychological games on each other in the global marketplace just to make money. I'd rather not do that.
10. Why do you sign your pieces Breathe One Love instead of with your name?
Because Love is all there is.