Thinking
Mixed media with text by the artist
Molly Van Avery

The foundation with which I worked for this piece is the Buddhist- inspired idea that suffering is an essential part of life and that suffering can be a doorway to joy.  Without the pain of birth, we could never experience what it means to be alive in a body.  I decided to create three separate pieces that tracked that process of moving from suffering to sitting with yourself to opening up to a more complex, forgiving sense of joy.
 

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