"I Am the Rains of Emotional Release, Replenishing both Empathy and Self-Care [Autumn 2]" Limited Edition, Giclee Canvas Print

Print Quality Details

These museum-quality giclée canvas and premium paper prints are crafted with premium, ethically sourced materials and archival, acid-free inks to ensure lasting beauty. From durable poplar wood stretcher bars to precision Epson printing, every piece reflects exceptional craftsmanship, delivering a timeless, elegant artwork made to the highest professional standards.

These are outstanding giclées or archival pigment prints where each one is hand proofed and signed by me.  Giclée printing is a fine art digital printing method using specialist archival pigment inks and acid-free papers; creating museum/gallery prints with excellent depth of colour, longevity and stability.

Studies have shown that Giclee Prints colour vividness can last in excess of 200 years with tests by independent bodies such as Wilhelm Research and printer manufacturers such as Epson. This gives assurance to collectors and art buyers of this type of printing method.

Canvas: We use Urth canvas, the world’s first solvent canvas with archival certification by the Fine Art Trade Guild. Manufactured by the leading canvas supplier of award-winning digital inkjet canvas, Breathing Color® uses breakthrough technology of agent-free Fluorescent Whitening and Chromata white to create a canvas free of optical brighteners while still producing canvas prints with bright whites and true vivid colors that will not fade or yellow over time. With OBA-free Urth canvas, your print can hang in direct sunlight and remain fade-resistant and as beautiful as the day it was printed. The canvas has a built-in coating, which makes it moisture and abrasion-resistant, with UV protection. The canvas is durable enough to withstand cleaning by taking a damp cloth to the surface to remove dust.

Inks: We use UltraChrome GS3 HD inks, which have a wide & rich color gamut range. The inks are sprayed upon canvas, hence the “giclee application,” with extreme detail and vibrancy, thus creating a stunningly sharp image. Tested by Wilhelm Research, these lightfast, archival inks are designed to last 100+ years.

Wood: The wood used to create the stretcher bars for your print is made from poplar trees, which are extremely strong and stable.

Printing Equipment: Printers include the Epson Surecolor S80600 and the 9900 Pro Series, which are state-of-the-art in the industry and print at astounding resolutions of 1440 ppi.

Artwork Description and Symbolism

“I Am the Rains of Emotional Release, Replenishing both Empathy and Self-Care” is a Sonoran Desert teaching in visual form: even the most resilient terrain is shaped by storms, and so are we. In the broader context of The Desert Abstraction Project, the desert becomes both landscape and mirror—an “American Southwest Wonderland” where the outer monsoon reflects an inner weather system of intuition, insight, and spiritual awakening. This piece invites you to treat your emotional life the same way the desert treats rain: not as a disruption to resist, but as renewal that makes life more honest, more connected, and more whole.

The scene opens onto a calm Tucson horizon—distant mountains under a sky of soft blues and layered clouds, with cacti standing steady like quiet witnesses. Across that serenity, bold black and silver strokes slash, scatter, and burst with urgency. They feel ink-like, primal, and alive—an embodied language for what words often fail to carry: grief, anger, overwhelm, longing, or the truth you’ve been “handling” instead of feeling. The contrast is precisely the point. The landscape grounds you in reality; the marks move you through it. This is emotional release as spiritual practice: the storm that clears pressure, thins the veil, and restores the capacity to care—first for yourself, then for others.

Within the project’s philosophy, love is the essence of God, and fear is the illusion of separation—two poles we learn to navigate as human beings. This artwork holds that counterbalance with integrity: calm and chaos, control and surrender, drought and rain. It becomes a trailhead signpost for anyone ready to stop wrestling life into order and start living with emotional intelligence—choosing, moment by moment, how to Feel, Act, and Respond. If you want art that transforms a room into a daily reset—something beautiful, challenging, and deeply supportive—bring this piece into your home or workspace now and let it remind you that when emotion moves, empathy returns, and self-care becomes strength.

Accompanying Inspirational Exercise — “Monsoon Reset” (4 minutes, as-needed)
Stand before the artwork and let the black-and-silver strokes represent what’s trying to move through you. Then complete this quick sequence: (1) Feel: name the strongest emotion present in one word. (2) Release: set a 90-second timer and write one unfiltered paragraph beginning with “What I’m really carrying is…”. (3) Replenish: choose one small, specific act of self-care you will do within 24 hours that matches what you wrote (rest, hydration, a boundary, a walk, asking for help, a difficult conversation handled gently). Close by saying once: “I can’t control everything—but I can choose how I feel, act, and respond. I choose to replenish.”