Guardians of the Threshold are black cats as interdimensional travellers that protect us at night while we sleep. I was asked to live paint at a three day festival in Hawaii near where I live. Sleeping upon the idea of what I would paint in front of others, I woke up in the morning with the idea of painting black cats into the dark areas where the paint was the thickest. Then I looked outside and in my driveway there was a black cat for confirmation! I have not seen a black cat near home since then because of dogs.

Guardians of the Threshold is a revision and addition of the cats to this original painting from my Channeling Nadis series. The paintings are topographical maps of the hills and rivers around my property. The rain I noticed makes small rivers down the hillside. They are exactly like larger streams or rivers, just on a smaller scale. I am fascinated when I pour the watered down media over the canvases, that the water follows these river channels. As the canvas dries, the pattern of water changes and layers of rivers form. The fabric allows me to gain an imprint of the ground as I trace it with flowing water mixed with acrylics and inks. This fractal branching is in the human body in many ways and in our wiring of bodily energy systems. I pour a lot of water so that it picks up and carries the paint with it like sediment in a river. Most of the paint I use is a mineral color: copper, silver, Mayan gold, or turquoise. Each painting has a trail of minerals flowing off the end of it. The pathways or channels change and flow in new patterns with every adjustment.