The Birthday Present in a Lotus Pond

How intuition can deliver an outcome far beyond what we think we are creating.

It's quite something how art can detect things we don't know, can trigger memories, and lead to story-telling in such detail.

This story that I’m about to unstack is about lotus ponds. Both my friend Edythe’s and mine. Edythe took photos of lotus ponds in Bali and I took those photos and used them to inspire the pastels you see here, and the lotus quilt…