About this piece

Throughout my life, well intentioned people have told me that in order to attract the man I want, I need to lean into my feminine. What I hear them saying is that I’m too much of one thing and not enough of the other. This story of not being enough or of being too much has followed me through the years and has caused me to experience feelings of unworthiness and loneliness. But as I have created this deeply feminine body of work from places in me I didn’t even know existed, I’ve come to realize that my particular brand of femininity doesn’t conform to what society tells me it should be. It’s revealing itself to me through my art.

As I ease into my early 40’s, I’m leaning into my divine dark feminine. Powerful. Direct. Wild. Fierce. FREE. I resolve to double down on ME. Even if it scares the men. Especially if it scares them. Because there’s one man out there who’s leaning into his divine dark masculine too. He is a master of his energetic and emotional domain. He knows his shadow and respects women and honors the sacredness of the feminine. He is neither a “soft” nor a “hard” man, but a man who works toward integration: light and shadow, solar and lunar, masculine and feminine.