Miniature Oil Pastel Paintings
Doorways have always symbolized something meaningful to me.
Every doorway is an invitation—a threshold between what has been and what is possible. Some doors close; others open, and each offers us an opportunity to begin.
This mirrors the thresholds in our lives—endings, beginnings, transitions, uncertainty—the quiet, trembling moments when the familiar loosens its grip and the future has not yet taken shape.
These are the doorways where we hesitate and hover, our hearts caught between what we are asked to release and what we have not yet learned to welcome. Spaces where grief and hope mingle, and we discover, often clumsily, how to keep stepping forward into the unknown.
But a doorway is an invitation, not a command. It doesn’t demand that we walk through. It simply offers the possibility.
And within possibility, there is magic.
The hope and wonder of the unexpected. The promise that something beautiful might exist just beyond what we can see.
Perhaps that is what draws me to doorways—the mystery of what lies beyond them, and the quiet reminder that we are never quite as finished as we think we are.
This is what I am trying to capture in these miniature oil pastels: possibility.
These tiny doorways are portals to hope—little talismans, perhaps, or windows into possibility. Small reminders that even when we cannot see what lies beyond, there is always the possibility that something unexpected, something beautiful, is waiting on the other side.
Each one is an invitation.
A Meditation for the Threshold
This meditation was created as a premium meditation on Insight Timer. I’m sharing it here because of its exploration of intuition, universal consciousness, and the unknown, which feels so connected to what these little doorways represent: possibility, invitation, and the mystery of what lies beyond.
Unlocking Intuition & Universal Consciousness