A space is not empty. It holds what is still forming, what has not yet found language. It is what allows something to be felt, held, moved through, and transformed.
For me, to transcend is not to leave the body or escape experience. It is to create enough inner space to meet what is.
Space to TRANSCEND begins there: with breath, creation, and reflection.
I painted this ensō in 2020, when I was beginning to feel the symptoms of chronic stress. I turned to art, yin yoga, and the writings of Thich Nhat Hanh.
An ensō is a Zen circle, traditionally drawn in one uninterrupted brushstroke, breathing in through the first half of the circle and breathing out through the second half. A meditation in motion. One movement, one moment, one trace.
It may remain open or uneven, reminding us that wholeness does not require perfection or forcing into completion. Meeting life where it is.
For Thich Nhat Hanh, drawing the circle was also an expression of interbeing: the hand drawing contains ancestors, teachers, and all that made the gesture possible.
I drew this circle in a moment of need, without fully knowing why.
Today, I return to it consciously.
This is where Space to TRANSCEND begins.
