There are versions of us the world finds easier to accept. Clean lines, readable shapes, fixed forms, a single color held long enough to be understood. We learn early how to present those versions. How to stay consistent. How to be legible.
But identity was never meant to be a straight line.
Unmasked in Color started as a thought born in the Year of the Horse, then grew into a study of light. First in sunsets, then in the electric pulse of the city at night. Different sources, the same pull: how light reveals and distorts, how it moves across a surface and changes what we think we see. Somewhere in that curiosity, the work turned inward. Light stopped being something I was observing and became a language for self.
The horse appears here as instinct. As movement that refuses to be arranged. It carries no performance or posture shaped for approval. That’s just how the horse is. In color, it becomes something else entirely. Each hue is a fragment of self. Of stories, of evolution. Sudden turns. Plot twists, if this is a love story.
To be unmasked isn’t about removing something false and arriving at one fixed identity. It’s allowing all of them to exist without editing for comfort. Not one color, one version, one narrative that fits cleanly into everyone else’s expectation.
This piece lives inside Sacred Wild, a body of work that follows energy across forms: sky to city, observation to expression. The same force into my digital canvas.
Some will see a winged horse with a crown. A unicorn. A queen. A king. Some will see color. Some will recognize the exact moment you stop asking for permission to be everything you are, and realize that the advice you’ve been giving others is harder to take for yourself than you ever admitted.
Maybe that’s the point.
Not everything is meant to be defined. Only felt, and if it calls to you, claimed.
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Nature, music, life, and spirit find their way into everything I make, whether digital or traditional. If a piece calls to you or you’d like to create something together, reach out at writeme@lheanstorm.com
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