Tranquil Trance (Original)

I started this one at home, with the kids two years younger and louder than they are now. I'd not long left my job and I wasn't in the best place.

I find pattern and repetition soothing. The same line, the same curve, again and again, and somewhere in it the me that's concerned with all the small everyday things vanishes into the background. What's left is the part that belongs to something larger. Part of the earth. Part of the whole.

The shape underneath is a torus: energy flowing out, round and back in through its own centre, feeding itself, nothing lost. It felt like the right thing to be drawing.

White gel pen on 300gsm black watercolour paper. A4 (21 × 29.7 cm). Signed by me.