Bhāvanā is a Sanskrit word with many definitions:
“to cultivate,” “to produce,” “to call into existence,” “to feel.”
My favorite way to appreciate it is this: bhāvanā is the experience of feeling. It is a self-cultivated, meditative, and evolutionary state of feeling. It is the feeling that arises from the experience of being. Perhaps the easiest way to understand this, is to remember what you felt the last time you quietly looked up at a dark sky full of stars.

Painted in the Toulouse, France, this series illustrates the felt states witnessed within creation. These paintings were unplanned, un-drafted, and many ways, they created themselves.

bhāvanā
3x5” series of 12
acrylic ink + acrylic paint on canvas
2023