Long Journey

Long Journey/ Batik on muslin
For many years,batik was my calling. I first learned this art form when living in Mexico before my fated bus wreck. I stopped doing it for many years as I struggled with surgeries, PTSD and healing. Late in my healing journey with my art therapist, batik started calling me again. I believe some part of me knew I needed to revisit that prior time to heal, but didn't know it at the time and just felt creative surges to do batik. It was a prolific and creative period of batik making, with deep undercurrents of emotions.

Batik is a process where you dye material, paint with beeswax, re dye, re wax until the piece is complete. Then wax is removed and a very organic work appears. For me, I think this process was part of peeling back my layers within and witnessing the birth of my evolving healing self and reflected my long journey of trauma and PTSD.

Do you do anything that helps be a conduit for that voice within?
Art Heals!!!!