Reorient · The Visual Language of Healing™
Meditating without having to meditate.
If you’ve tried meditation and couldn’t stick with it, this is a different door entirely. Symmetrical, Fibonacci-based nature imagery that is easy on the eye and, for a lot of people, quietly settling. Art you use, not art you hang.
How it works
Why this settles you when a beautiful photograph doesn't.
The visual system picks up symmetry remarkably fast, and a symmetrical image takes less organizing than a chaotic one. That central line runs like a spine down the middle. For me it is the visual equivalent of somewhere for the eyes to land — and many people find that order settling to look at.
Nature supplies the geometry — the Fibonacci patterns already there in a fern, a wave, a canyon wall. I supply the mirror. Together they make what I think of as a dream of connection.
The result is open-eyed meditation. You stay awake, eyes open, in your chair. The image holds your attention lightly enough that your thinking mind stops gripping, and you slide into the observer seat — watching the mind instead of being swallowed by it.
“It's the calm of staring into a candle — captured, so you can come back to it anytime.”
The Gaze Practice
How to actually use a piece.
Sit where you can see it comfortably. Feet on the floor, two long sighing breaths out.
Lightly gaze for three to eleven minutes. Let your eyes relax enough to let go of the form — soft focus, not staring.
Observe your mind. Watch the journey you go on. You're not trying to stop the thoughts; you're sitting back and watching them move.
Receive the wisdom. Whatever comes is yours. It's your gift.
If three minutes feels like a lot right now, do thirty seconds. A dysregulated system doesn't need discipline — it needs a small dose of safety, repeated. Your nervous system responds to safety, not to struggle.
Where it comes from
Twenty-five years of my own photographs.
Every piece starts as a photograph I took — a fern, a wave, a canyon wall, a bloom. Nothing is sourced, nothing is licensed. Then I mirror it, and the geometry that was already in the thing comes forward.
That’s the whole method, and it’s why no two pieces sit the same way. I’m not designing a pattern. I’m finding the one that was in there.
The research
Read it for yourself.
I would rather you check than take my word for it, so here is what I’m actually leaning on — and where it stops.
Research in visual neuroscience shows the brain responds automatically to symmetry and visual regularity. Symmetry is associated with perceptual fluency — the ease with which the brain organizes visual information — while clinical research on viewing art and engaging with structured symmetrical forms such as mandalas has documented reductions in stress and anxiety and improvements in well-being.
What it does not show, and what I will not claim: that symmetry heals tissue or disease, that anything here rewires your brain, or that my artwork in particular has been tested on anyone. This work is a complement to medical and mental-health care, not a substitute for it, and I make no medical claims.
- The neural basis of visual symmetry and its role in mid- and high-level visual processing Bertamini et al., Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2018 How the visual system detects symmetry — automatically, fast, and in specific extrastriate networks.
- Evidence for the effects of viewing visual artworks on stress outcomes: a scoping review PubMed 34193477, 2021 A review of what is and isn’t established about looking at art and stress.
- Mandala-based art interventions for anxiety and depressive symptoms in middle-aged and older adults Liu et al., Frontiers in Psychology, 2026 — 9 randomised trials, 648 people Found reductions in anxiety and depressive symptoms, and the authors rate the certainty of that evidence as very low. Read it with that in mind.
- On the effectiveness of visual arts therapy for traumatic experiences: a systematic review and meta-analysis Maddox et al., Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 2024 The nearest thing to a bottom line on art-based work after trauma.
On PBS
Watch how the work is made.
PBS came and filmed it. If you want to understand what these pieces actually are before you put one on a wall, this is the shortest way in.
The five series
Choose by what your system needs.
These aren’t five moods. They’re five different jobs. A body that never comes down needs something different on the wall than a body that’s trying to get to sleep — so start with the state you’re actually in, not the colours you like.
Visual support for self-regulation. A complement to medical and mental-health care, not a substitute for it.
For a system that spends too much time on
Soul
The Soul Series is for nervous systems that don’t switch off.
Inspired by nature’s order — landscapes, light, symmetry, repetition — these pieces offer the sympathetic nervous system something it rarely gets: a signal of safety that doesn’t ask it to shut down.
Rather than stimulating or demanding attention, the work gives the body visual steadiness to orient to. Many people notice their breath slow, their shoulders soften, and the room go quieter simply by living with it.
This is art for people who are alert, responsive and perceptive — and ready for that vigilance to gently settle.
For rest, and for the end of the day
Serenity
The Serenity Series was made to invite rest.
Soft symmetry, calming palettes and spacious compositions encourage the parasympathetic nervous system — the body’s own rest-and-restore response — to come forward.
These are the pieces people choose for bedrooms, meditation corners and evening spaces, where the body needs help letting go after a full day of stimulation.
Serenity doesn’t ask for effort. It just makes an environment where rest feels available.
For recalibration — moving between the two
Shangri-La
The Shangri-La Series holds both stillness and depth: visual complexity that stays coherent instead of turning chaotic.
It supports self-regulation by helping the nervous system move fluidly between activation and rest, without tipping too far into either.
Many people experience this series as grounding, reflective and quietly centering. It’s often chosen for rooms where clarity, emotional balance and inner alignment matter.
Art for moments of recalibration.
For inner authority, softness as strength
Sacred
The Sacred Series honours the divine feminine — intuition, receptivity, creativity, embodied wisdom.
These pieces are made to awaken inner authority rather than push for control. Through sacred geometry, symmetry and symbolic form, the work invites you to remember softness as strength and sensitivity as power.
Often placed on altars, in healing spaces and in personal sanctuaries, this series supports an empowerment that feels rooted, nurturing and self-led.
For memory, and for what you don’t want to lose
Sentimental
This photography collection holds moments that carry emotional weight — places, light and memories that stay personal.
These images aren’t about perfection. They’re about remembrance.
Chosen for their ability to evoke nostalgia, connection and tenderness, they often become anchors for memory — honouring the people, places and chapters of a life that still live in the heart.
Art that holds what matters.
Formats
Bring it home.
Any image, any size, any medium — semi-gloss photo prints through to float-mounted metal.
Hang it where you'll actually meet it: the wall you face first thing, the corner you sit in, the spot you walk past on the hard days. It only works if you can see it.
The metal is the one I’d choose for a wall you pass every day. It holds light the way water does, so it shifts with the hour — and on a hard day you don’t have to do anything with it. You walk past, and your eyes get somewhere to land.
Aluminum metal print
Di-bond aluminum on a one-inch float mount. Luminous and dimensional — and self-cleansing, so no salt, no ritual, no upkeep.
Archival paper & canvas
Paper in 4×6, 5×7, 8×10, 11×14 and 16×20; canvas on a one-inch wrap. Sized for a desk, a bedside, or the wall you look at first thing.
Books, cards, blankets, candles
The work off the wall and into your hands — for gifting, and for the people not ready to hang anything yet.
Not ready to choose? Start with the free 5×7 — just cover shipping, and the gaze practice comes with it, so you have something to do with it the day it arrives.
Press
“Art as Medicine”
That’s what Light of Consciousness called this work when they published it in 2015 — and it’s still the clearest description I have of what it’s for.
Light of Consciousness · Winter 2015