Meditations in Pain

Meditations in Pain are both representations of my physical pain and a method of controlling it. I use meditation and directed breath work to manage pain generally. During the meditation I develop an almost visual-spacial understanding of how the pain tracks through my body, the nerves and muscles, the area of tension and also how breath and energy play through them. By taking that understanding and moving it into an artistic representation of the somatic mediation, the meditative state extends to provide pain management while I am making the associated art. This art is communication about my physical problems but is also an integral part of living with them.