Strength and Vulnerability

This work explores the paradoxical relationship between strength and vulnerability. The shape of the pyramid appears as a universal symbol of physical and spiritual strength. The human form, abstracted in this way, hollowed out at the chest and filled with wax, represents a vessel of absolute protection that is required to hold the experience of vulnerability. It is a symbol of the strength necessary and the skill needed to contain one's energies and turn them inward, transcending vulnerability. It is the ability to open the body and mind to invoke the open space of expanded awareness.