Lifegrid was done over a two or three year period, just painting whatever came to mind.

New feather

Hole in the rocks

Hole in the heart

Turbaned cicada

The Ba, or soul bird, as the manifestation of the fullness of a person’s individuality, surviving after death and always returning to the body in the tomb. from “The Book of Symbols” ed. by Ami Ronnberg.

Me and my ba on left, the Egyptian mother goddess Hathor in her cow form on right