A Wolf Dream

This wolf first appeared to me in a dream in 2022.  In the dream I was anxiously pacing back and forth as a bear tried with all of its might to get into my cabin when I noticed shattered glass on the floor. I glanced up to investigate the source and saw a window, broken in from the outside. I swiftly turned around and locked eyes with a lone grey wolf. The wolf spoke to me and said, “I am going to teach you how to not be afraid.” I woke up instantly, permanently imprinted with this encounter. 

Wolf energy carries both independence (think lone wolf) and also community (wolf pack). Aspects of the soul’s journey are traversed alone, while others we are held in. This painting carries both truths: solitude as initiation, and the unseen companionship that surrounds us when we take each next step on our path without fear.

Wolf symbolism began reappearing in my life in the years after that dream, as if to remind me that the essence I met in the dream was a wise teacher. Each time wolf appeared I came to recognize fear as the strong signal that I was standing at the edge of growth.

This understanding comforted me as I moved through life's challenges. There were countless times when I called on the wisdom of the solitary nature of the wolf for empowerment during the years I spent in near solitude, honing my craft and diving into my own healing. The wolf reminded me that being alone is not a punishment or a void, it is an initiation space, a place where instincts sharpen, resilience deepens, and one’s true voice emerges.

That wisdom steadied me and helped me hold my path when it felt uncertain. The wolf taught me that courage is not the absence of fear but the willingness to move with it. In that way, the wolf became a presence I could return to, reminding me of my own inner wildness and my ability to walk forward even when the way ahead felt unknown.

In 2025 I embarked on a two-week journey, a move from Arizona to Washington, a homecoming after more than two decades.

This was the first painting I started after fearlessly deciding to leave my stable career and to step fully into my path as an artist, creator, guide. 

I began my work on this piece at the first stop. I was outside of San Diego on an absolutely stunning communal property where campers and nomads come for visits.

I set up my canvas in a fairy ring beside the main house, near a fountain and towering trees, compelled by an intuitive pull that this was the spot to paint. The perma-residents passing by giggled and remarked on my bravery for painting within the fae ring. I considered the possibility of mischief but trusted that magic was meant to infuse itself into my work there. I could have allowed fear or superstition to hold me back, but instead I opened myself to the mystery, welcoming the possibility that something ancient and whimsical may well seep into my creative flow that day, and it did ;)  

My voyage continued and a few days later I found a camping spot on an immaculate property that typically hosted Buddhist meditation retreats. It was the middle of the week and I was completely alone on the land aside from the grounds keepers and a number of seemingly belligerent wild turkeys. It was incredibly serene near the redwood forests. As I sat down to paint about 30-feet away from my camp, a turkey began charging my vehicle! He puffed up his feathers and repeatedly smashed himself into the RV. I was so perplexed as to why, and later realized that the turkey was battling his own reflection in the metal of the bumper. What could this mean? I decided that the scene was mirroring for me the lesson that fear and defensiveness often rises not from reality, but from illusion. 

These moments became woven into the energetic field of the painting. The fairy ring, the turkey, the courage to begin my journey as a full-time artist, all echoed in the wolf’s dream message: release fear. 

Fear will always guard the thresholds, but on the other side waits freedom, magic, and creative power, depicted by the swirls of color surrounding the grey wolf. 

May this wolf painting serve you as a reminder that some paths must be traversed alone before we align with our pack. To step into its energy is to face the edge of fear and move anyway, eyes open. 

The courage to make bold moves, and to begin this painting immediately began opening doors to lifelong dreams...

One of the blessings I would receive just weeks after the turkey attack was an invitation to live paint at a Yaima show when I landed in Seattle. Their music carried me through pivotal moments of my awakening journey and I was so honored. Yaima’s music does what the wolf does, it guides us through the unknown, offering courage, beauty, and belonging in the mystery. To live paint alongside them felt like the embodiment of a prayer answered, a merging of art and sound that had been shaping me from within for years.

I was also invited to work on this piece during Snow Raven's "Arctic Beats" immersive experience. Snow Raven is known as one of the few contemporary carriers of the ancient Sakha tradition. Her voice is elemental and she channels the sounds of birds, animals, wind, and water, transmitting frequencies that collapse the distance between the human and the natural world. Her heart song invites us to remember our own wildness and the original harmony with Earth. Those frequencies too, have woven themselves into the layers of the wolf painting.

Everywhere the wolf has traveled with me, I have gathered and rendered these swirling codes of courage and trust. The story it tells is not only of solitary strength but of what becomes possible in community when fear is released and our creation are shared.

This piece stands as a reminder of these teachings, holding both the wild protection of the wolf and the courage it takes to walk forward into the unknown.

The gaze is soft, gentle...and if you look longer, even more eyes appear.

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To me, the edge is where the image refuses to stop at the border. It asks us to look beyond what is immediately visible and to consider what exists just outside our field of view.

Painting the edges is my way of reminding us that expansion happens when we move past the frame, past the limits of what we think we know. The edges reflect our own process of meeting ourselves beyond comfort zones, in the places where growth, change, and possibility live.

Each time you notice the continuation of design wrapping around the canvas, I invite you to remember that there is always more. More depth, more perspective, more of you waiting to be discovered beyond fear.

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