My artistic style flows directly from my writing. When I write, images rise naturally to illustrate my stories. The text below is the inspiration behind this piece.
I spend my first spring visit at Plum Village’s Lower Hamlet with the intention of being in full awareness of all its natural manifestations. I aim to be mindful not just of what I am accustomed to perceiving through my senses, but of deeper and more subtle realities.
 Upon arriving, I find that spring is in full and exuberant bloom at Plum Village. Tall grasses color-washed in multiple wild flower-pigments, the farm, banana trees, domestic varieties such as lilies, roses and velvet plants, circular bamboo groves, the plum orchard, the poplar forest and all kinds of other flora. Plum Village’s natural surroundings fit Thich Nhat Hanh’s description of Mother Earth as a Bodhisattva. Most residents are engaged in some kind of earth project. The monks and nuns are building a bench with bamboo branches. I know that Thay would have felt fully satisfied with this microcosmos. We all are his continuation, humans and nature.
From my book Walking on Earth with Thich Nhat Hanh (p. 129)