I was visiting Sedona and staying in a magical place at the base of the Spiritual Vortex known as Cathedral Rock. I had a dream that I was to paint Quan Yin and her colours would be green. I didn't begin her until I was back in my studio where I lived, which stood on a mountaintop giving panoramic views of the Pacific Ocean above Malibu, California. This is also a powerful vortex point that the indigenous Chumash people had recognized eons ago as a special place that was used for Sacred ceremonies.

My dreams have often been prophetic and amazingly accurate in guiding me and giving me powerful insight into all areas of my life. I have written them in my journals for years to give them the respect they deserve for the messages they give me. Hippocrites, Socrates, Einstein along with many others were all creative dreamers who drew from their inter-dimensional travels for inspiration. I have learned that when a dream speaks to me, I listen. Although I did not know very much about Quan Yin at the time, I knew her Spirit would assist me in creating her the way she wanted to be.

Because of her "mythical" Asian origin, I created a meditative state, in an atmosphere of sacredness, listening to Tibetan chants. I burned sacred essences and I used the Tibetan singing bowls, and chimes to clear the space and call to her ancient spirit.
Quan Yin's essence is compassion, the ultimate Mother. In laying out her foundation, I used Red Sandalwood an essence that is calming. I used Rue as I often do for protection and in this particular painting I used some White Seaweed I had picked up off the coast of Malibu to bring in the Spirit of the Great Mother Ocean. After playing in her foundation I was quite excited to see after it dried, an open space had been prepared for her emptying vessel to flow and also laid before me, a foot, large and unbound. To me this is a statement of her feminine power. Tears were used on the canvas at this point for me, as I recognized Spirit's magic at work already moving through me.

I did some research in an encyclopedia of Myths and Women's Secrets, where I discovered, "Quan Yin perpetually contemplated the Golden Vial of her own womb, which produced the whole world." I have never seen her depicted as pregnant, although she is said to be the "Bringer of Children". I painted a major part of her during the Summer Solstice where I later read, "The Goddess has reached her maturity at Summer Solstice, she is the Earth Mother, and animals surround her. Her image is one of abundance, sexuality, and fertility. She is pregnant with life and the harvest, the land of milk and honey is literally her body and the body of the Earth."

Myth has it that in the Lumorian days the stag was a symbol of man. The images of the female deer already existed on her left, the feminine side, and the antlered stags were there on her right, all I needed to do was to bring out the detail. As your eye raises the Staggs seem to metamorphic into man. The man is the gatherer and her protector. The White Buffalo Dragons existed too in her auras mist to bring protection from the higher realms as she channels the Great current of Creation.