All summer I been making more art that is inspired by this mound hacking idea. Here’s what I wrote on and about “40th Parallel”:

Horizontality. Veritcality. I search for treasures hidden in the paper. Brush leads me to the place. This is only possible with the imagination at play. Paints ready. The treasures are – what? – the marks and line and stroke reveal the essence. Everything I paint is a prayer. An interfaith prayer for beauty and love. (Peace might be too much to ask for, but why not, we must at least ask.) The scripts are the inner faith language that is calling this out. The Earth pulls us vertically. The wind blows us horizontally. Pema Chodron said “You are the sky everything else is the weather.” Finding the treasure within brings peace, eventually. Layers of time, celebrations into the dimensions.
see: https://kathleen-obrien.com/mound-hacker/