Mentalmorphosis
 
It’s not always just a mental switch; sometimes it takes a bit longer for understanding to transform your heart. this piece is about the patience and hard work (like a bird building a nest out of many small pieces, or a caterpillar turning to goop in a chrysalis) required to change yourself at the core.
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do you know that space in between when you understand something in your mind,
but it has yet to manifest itself as a permanent resident in your soul?
 
more and more I’ve realized that life is about building a place for head wisdom
to be reborn as heart transformation.

In the beginning, a warm nest is knit strand by strand.

then wisdom, at its highest fragility, is incubated like a seed under warm soil.

over time you begin to hear the soft knocking of a tiny beak, louder and stronger.
 
finally, heart level wisdom emerges as a fully formed creature.
it may fly from you, and impact or transform another.
 
Annotations:
 
Fig. 1. Leopard moth (Hypercompe scribonia) caterpillar
Fig. 2. Hypercompe scribonia pupal stage
Fig. 3. Hypercompe scribonia adult stage
 
a. a bird's nest heart.
b. a Eurasian Jay hat.
c. winged magnolias; the flower of resilience.
 
 
𝑴𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒑𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒔
graphite on Stonehenge toned paper
11 x 11”
2020
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