This interviewee opted to remain anonymous. She is an accomplished painter and installation artist. Her paintings are inspired by forms and patterns in the natural world and large ones can take several months to complete. She lives in Los Angeles, California and predominantly exhibits her work and teaches in Southern California. What is your relationship to your authentic self? Sometimes I still struggle to honor and give voice to my authentic self, but at least I am listening to it more attentively now and I am no longer denying or sublimating it. I feel clear and grounded more often than I used to. I still have times where doubt clouds over me and I feel like I am steadied only by a threadlike tether connected to true living. If I expand my view, though, the self-doubt is part of my authentic self, too. The relationship to my true self is a discovery process, a continual...
