The Garden of Self
colored pencil on paper
36 x 24.3 cm (14.17 x 9.57 in)
20 June 2025
This work depicts the final sanctuary reached after journeying through the inner stages of the mind: passing through the gate of persona, the forest of shadows, the wounded pond, the maze of confusion, and the regenerative greenhouse. Here, in the garden of self, all wounds of the past are healed—every hidden depth, shadow, and light coexisting in harmony. Beneath an inverted rainbow, fairies and unicorns rest in quiet ease, a vision where the rules of the outer world dissolve into the gentle order of the soul. It is a place untouched by all that lies beyond the inner world, where the self meets itself in perfect unity of essence.