Paintings from YOUtopia, one of my research case study projects, use water to granulate paint pigment in ways that create an ethereal flickering of light on rough paper to contribute toward the design of a new type of “cave,” called SoulScapes.

SoulScapes are imbued with an aliveness of contour and depth that turns the emergent places I create, into environmental illuminations for the soul to awaken into deeper consciousness.

As humanity’s need to “anticipate” becomes more complex due to the many profound challenges and significant opportunities in our rapidly-changing world, it is the Soulscape that brings us back to our most authentic origins – where humanity can actualize our highest potential.

Each Soulscape project I create is an emergent guide that awakens my highest self, to raise my consciousness to compassionately create at local and global scales to help all thrive. For example, within each YOUtopia painting, the Burgundy Red Ochre color is used for two primary reasons: (1) to carry forward the echoes of prehistoric cave art that also used this reddish-brown earth pigment, and (2) to celebrate humanity as symbolized by this reddish-brown color within the broader context of the surrounding architectural built world as depicted with black and lavender.

The juxtaposition and convergence of these latter colors allows each YOUtopia painting I create to embody the paradoxical relationship we have as people with our built world – as the “places” we shape, shape us in return.

While prehistoric cave art helped early humans to use their forward-looking imagination to survive, it is the Soulscape that helps us to wisely actualize what to do with this inner power today: by deepening consciousness in ways that harness creative compassion to “anticipate” a world of peace, joy, and love.