Vagus - Available

oil on masonite board + wooden frame

31×32

Vegas really creeps me out. All that iniquity, depleting the water table. I just can’t wrap my head around the fact that people spend that much energy (money) there … spending enough so that pausing the slot machines and contributing just one night of collective funds could solve so many problems - like housing the homeless or feeding kids a school lunch made of real food. Being there, in Vegas, made me feel so jangled and wrong. In contrast, when I sit in the rainforest surrounded by birds and life and flitty bugs and broad leaves and breathing tree bark … my vagus nerve is completely at peace. All I want to do in my life is protect the forests that give us all our life and oxygen. Easy ways to do this are by supporting indigenous land rights. Changing your consumer habits. Reduce meat and palm oil consumption (why tf are peanut butter companies putting palm oil in peanut butter! Is it really too hard for people to just flip the jar over and stir?! Madness!)

*the photos of this painting really do not do it justice - it’s so intricate and lovely in person and it just doesn’t really translate via a photo that I took. Maybe a professional photographer could capture the nuances but alas, I am not such person. If you would like to see it in person let me know :)