GHETTOMORPHOSIS I, II, III, IV
Oil on acrylic on photoshop collage on canvas (No worries, it’s archival! )
8×8″
2013

Ghettomorphosis, n. = the word landed in my gut while working with kids some might call >at risk< in a neighborhood some might call a >ghetto<. Letting go of that language and the hierarchy of hand-outs, they became my teachers as i woke up to the shadow & light evident in each of us and in each situation. Replacing judgement with curiosity: nobody criticizes a cocoon. Nobody has to tell a caterpillar how to sprout its own wings.  To me, Ghettomorphosis means accepting and loving the shadowiest places in ourselves and our world back into vibrant interconnection — celebrating our wholeness, while it’s still becoming. Trusting process.  I gave myself the assignment of crafting a ‘visual sentence’ that could describe this concept. Here’s what I came up with.