The Elements of Care
It’s said that when we die, the four elements – earth, air, fire and water – dissolve one by one, each into the other, and finally just dissolve into space.
But while we’re living, we share the energy that makes everything, from a blade of grass to an elephant, grow and live and then inevitably wear out and die.
This energy, this life force, creates the whole world.
-Pema Chodron-
All original pend and ink drawings below are available as digital prints, printed with non-fugitive inks on Ilford Washi Torinoko 110gsm archival paper. Signed and embossed by the artist and available in one size only.
Profits will be donated to various environmental conservation organizations.
C| Water
Consciousness | Creativity | Connection
‘Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern… the whole world is a work of art… there is no Shakespeare… no Beethoven… no God; we are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.’
– Virginia Woolf
Archival print size: 23 x 23cm - all profits from sales will be donated to I AM WATER
A| Air
Attention | Appreciation | Abundance
‘Now pause, no possession is required, and the power to swell the moment from the resources of our own heart until it supersedes sun & moon & solar system in its expanding immensity. The moment is all, in all noble relations.’
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Archival print size: 23 x 23cm - all profits from sales will be donated to Greenpop
R| Earth
Responsibility | Respect | Reciprocity
‘You thought, as a boy, that a mage is one who can do anything. So I thought, once. So did we all. And the truth is that as a man’s real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he must do.’
– Ursula K. Le Guin
Archival print size: 23 x 23cm - all profits from sales will be donated to The African Pangolin Working Group
E| Fire
Energy | Evolution | Equilibrium
You must burn. Burn higher.
Burn for everything you have ever wanted. For everything you have ever lost, for every crack in your heart and every fraction of every irreplaceable moment.
Burn high for love. For fear. For life.
Burn as fast and as long as you can.
You must burn, burn higher.
Because nothing in this world will kill you faster than a dying fire.
― Mia Hollow
Archival print size: 23 x 23cm - all profits from sales will be donated to The Global White Lion Protection Trust
CARE| Aether
Imagine a world where there are a couple of values – a few golden threads – that we could agree on as having an influence over the choices we make: connection, appreciation, and responsibility for the evolution of life on Earth.
By taking responsibility for our energy and showing appreciation for what we have access to in each moment, endeavouring to expand our consciousness with each challenge that presents itself, every step of the way we can transform the way we co-exist with all living beings.
It all makes a difference, no matter how insignificant that difference might seem at the time.
Archival print size 370 X 670mm - all profits from sales will be donated to Earthchild Project