"I Am Autumn- I Am Conscious Awareness Having This Experience" 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

Autumn is the season that invites honesty without theatrics—the time when nature turns inward, sheds what’s spent, and reveals what’s been hiding under the surface. In I Am Autumn— I Am Conscious Awareness Having This Experience, the Sonoran Desert becomes a living metaphor for shadow-work: the brave, compassionate practice of facing old wounds so they can finally loosen their grip.

Up close, the composition is a charged dialogue between spiny, protective branches and soft, compound leaves—a visual language anyone who has healed through hardship will recognize. The icy whites and muted earth tones cut through the lush greens like clarity arriving mid-process. The thorns feel like the psyche’s defenses—strategies once needed to survive—while the feathery foliage suggests the tender self underneath: the part that still wants connection, safety, and belonging. The layering and depth amplify the emotional truth of shadow-work: the human experience is never just one thing. It is protection and vulnerability, memory and renewal, tension and grace—often all at once.

In the spirit of The Desert Abstraction Project, this piece is not simply a study of desert form—it is a portrait of inner terrain. Autumn, as a psychological archetype, is the threshold season where the psyche is ripe for integration: the time when patterns that have been outgrown—resentment, shame, self-judgment, fear of being seen—can finally be examined and released. That is what gives the work its quiet power. It does not demand perfection. It suggests compassion through clarity—the kind of healing that softens how the inner voice speaks, and naturally expands how presence and understanding are extended to others.

For anyone moving through a season of repair, re-centering, and emotional maturation, I Am Autumn becomes a steady visual companion. It serves as a reminder that the shadow is not an enemy—it is information. Bringing this piece into a space is an invitation to heal with integrity, clear what no longer serves, and cultivate a more compassionate relationship with the self and the world.

Accompanying Inspirational Exercise: Autumn Shadow-Work for Compassion

For 10 minutes, three times this week, practice the following shadow-work ritual—designed to clear old wounds without becoming overwhelmed by them:

1) Name the Thorn (1 minute)
Write one recent emotional reaction—irritation, jealousy, defensiveness, withdrawal. Keep it factual:
“I felt ___ when ___ happened.”

2) Find the Wound (3 minutes)
Ask: “What fear or old story is underneath this?”
Examples may include: “I am not enough.” “I will be abandoned.” “It is not safe to be seen.”
Write the first honest answer that arises, without editing or judgment.

3) Offer the Leaf (3 minutes)
Respond from the perspective of a wise, compassionate protector:
“Of course, this feeling exists. It makes sense. Learning is happening. Safety exists now.”
Then add one supportive truth that can be practiced today:
“A boundary can be set without withdrawing love.”

4) Choose the Small Repair (3 minutes)
Select one gentle, tangible action that restores inner integrity, such as:

• sending a kind message that has been delayed

• stating a boundary simply and calmly

• clearing one small physical or emotional space

• taking a quiet walk without distraction to settle the nervous system

Close the practice by reading the following sentence out loud:

“Healing does not come from fighting the self. Healing comes from understanding the self.”

Over time, this practice allows Autumn to fulfill its deeper purpose: a season of psychic clearing, where old armor can soften, emotional insight can deepen, and compassion becomes not an aspiration—but a lived, embodied reality.