Open Heart

Here is the "mariposa" (butterflywoman) that Luis Paniagua sculpted and I collaged, painted and constructed the rest of the piece.  I feel as though she is announcing

the end of a long period of inner turmoil.  My heart is open and I stand naked and free,

ready to take flight.  Learning to love life in all it's "anxious beauty".  I still have unresolved questions in my heart perhaps I always will, it is the questions themselves that I am learning to love.

I am learning to love.

To love myself and others

in all their struggles

to be human.