Acrylics and glimmer on 30"x40"x1 canvas
 
This image appeared to me in a dream. I was dreaming about past lives
and how we carry them into the life we experience in the present.
We may be great at things and not know that it may have been our
past self that learned it. We are born carrying the universe inside of us 
(we are made of the stars, literally!), and our natural gifts are memories 
gathered through the journey in between life, death, and birth.
As I was making the mockup, I was inspired by Teyana Taylor's striking
features and had to use her in this painting.