“Submerged in My Love” is a mixed media and oil painting on 36”x 36” gallery wrapped canvas using acrylics, hand pressed flowers from the garden and oil paint.

This painting was one of the first paintings in the series of exploration of the idea of self love and self care. Those two terms mean so many different things to so many people.

I truly believe there are so many ways to love ourselves, through physical actions of course, but the true love comes from within. Once we love ourselves fully, then we are finally able to love others.

It is a delicate balance, self love, for I see it from the perspective of the true love that comes from inside ourselves, introspection and thought, to the kind of self care practices capitalism and wants to sell us.

Ultimately I hope to show that the journey to true love within oneself is not a linear journey, not an easy one, takes the rest of our lives to accomplish, and there are endless paths to get there.