Numinosum

Numinosum names something that can't quite be described, only felt. A sense that something is present before you understand what it is.

Each piece is made in one sitting, in soft pastel, a medium that doesn't allow corrections. There is no sketch and no idea waiting to be illustrated. What ends up on the paper is found in the process.

Jung used the word for an experience that takes hold of a person rather than being sought out. That's close to what happens here. The work isn't built piece by piece. It happens, and I follow it.

What stays constant is the impulse: to show up, pay attention, and let something come through.

The series is still open.