Pentimento is the art of changing your mind, allowing earlier layers to remain while risking what the painting might become next. Perhaps transformation in our lives asks the same of us.

Painters know that distance reveals what proximity hides. By stepping back from the canvas, and from our own thoughts, we begin to see beyond isolated details and discover how the fragments belong to a larger whole.

The muse is not summoned by longing. She is seduced by commitment. Begin the work, and she arrives quietly, drawn to the courage of someone who dared to start without her.